BHUBANESWAR: The Congress in Odisha on Tuesday ruled out any alliance with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for the upcoming rural and urban local body elections, seeking to end weeks of speculation over a ...

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Saturday (February 28, 2026) announced two candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls despite having the numbers to ensure victory for only one, a move that turned the contest ...

In a move that challenges electoral arithmetic as much as it tests political goodwill, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Saturday announced former corporate businessman Santrupt Mishra and urologist ...

BHUBANESWAR: BJD president and former chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday dismissed talks about the party breaking up in the near future and asserted that it will remain the voice of Odisha for ...

Bhubaneswar: Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Rajya Sabha MP Amar Patnaik joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday—a defection that laid bare the deepening crisis within Odisha’s once-dominant ...

BJD raises concerns over unemployment, farmers’ distress, price rise, and attacks on SC-ST and minorities amid BJP’s alleged administrative failures BJD leaders during the launch of the Jan Sampark ...

Naveen Patnaik's party fears its grassroots network—built over two decades as a conduit for welfare delivery and political mobilisation—is being systematically dismantled Share Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ...

The strong, disciplined, impenetrable facade that the formidable Biju Janata Dal (BJD) maintained when it ruled Odisha for 24 years seems to be cracking as it sits in the opposition benches. While ...

Following criticism from former BJD leaders regarding the party's declining stature, current BJD leaders Rohit Pujari and Lenin Mohanty defended the party, asserting that the people of Odisha will ...

Odisha’s principal opposition party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharat Rashtriya Samiti (BRS) of Telangana have decided to boycott the high-octane vice president elections in the country, scheduled to ...

Odisha's principal Opposition party, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), on Monday (September 8, 2025) announced that its MPs will abstain from voting in the vice-presidential elections. The party, headed by ...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and former minister Bhupinder Singh Wednesday praised the Congress and said that the regional party “failed” to perform its responsibilities as the principal Opposition ...