India TV-CNX Poll: BJD leads in Odisha, UDF ahead in Kerala and BJP to sweep Uttarakhand
India | July 31, 2023 13:43 ISTIndia TV has conducted an opinion poll to analyse which party will have an edge if Lok Sabha elections are held today.
India TV has conducted an opinion poll to analyse which party will have an edge if Lok Sabha elections are held today.
Monsson Session: BJD pitches for parliamentary nod for Women's Reservation Bill at all-party meet
A government official was arrested by the Odisha Vigilance Department in a disproportionate assets case. He was later sent to 14-day judicial custody.
Jharsuguda by-poll: BJD candidate Dipali Das defeated rival BJP candidate Tankadhar Tripathy by a margin of over 48,000 votes in Jharsuguda.
A day after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar met him in Bhubaneswar, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik met PM Modi in New Delhi triggering speculations in view of next year's Lok Sabha elections.
According to sources in the Chief Minister's Office, the meeting between the two chief ministers will take place at "Naveen Niwas" around noon.
Earlier last year, TMC Parliamentary Party Leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O'Brien also raised the demand for women's reservation bill and slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which promised the said bill in its 2014 election manifesto.
Top politicians allegedly trapped in a sex racket related to Archana Nag who was arrested by police on October 6. BJP demanded to reveal the names that cropped up in the case.
President Election: The BJP has named Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader of the party from Odisha, as the ruling NDA's candidate for the presidential election.
BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty won by a margin of 66,122 votes, pushing the opposition BJP to the third position for the first time since 2019.
This is the first time people in Odisha could directly elect mayors of corporations and chairpersons of municipalities and NACs, besides ward councillors, with the municipal laws having been amended recently.
The results will decide the fate of 6,411 candidates contesting for the posts of mayor and chairperson and 5,842 nominees for councillor and corporator posts.
Of the state's total 852 Zilla Parishad seats, the commission has completed the counting of votes in 829 seats. The results of the remaining are expected to be declared during the day, an SEC official said.
Eggs were hurled at BJD MP Aparajita Sarangi's vehicle and she was shown black flags at Banamalipur by Congress workers to protest against unemployment and price rise of various commodities including fuel.
The incident happened near the Government Hospital Square when Patnaik was returning to Bhubaneswar after attending the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Rs 331-crore heritage corridor project in Puri.
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Rudra Pratap Maharathy secured 96,972 votes, while Ashrit Pattnaik of the BJP bagged 76,056 votes.
A delegation of BJD MPs from both the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his Parliament chamber and submitted a memorandum in this regard.
Rajya Sabha will elect its Deputy Chairman on the first day of the Monsoon Session on September 14.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been re-elected as the President of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for the eighth consecutive term on Wednesday.
The Biju Janta Dal on Saturday opposed the directive of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar regarding the use of Hindi language by faculty and staff members.
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