Naveen Patnaik, the BJD president, announced Snehangini Chhuria as the candidate for the Nuapada Assembly bypoll on Wednesday. The Nuapada contest has drawn attention from all three major parties. For ...

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 ...

The Biju Janata Dal and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Monday said they would stay away from the vice-presidential election, as the ruling NDA and the Opposition INDIA bloc geared up for the contest on ...

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: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Odisha’s principal Opposition party, on Monday announced its decision to abstain from voting in the upcoming vice-presidential election, reaffirming its ...

The BJD MP said the Election Commission must ensure that no eligible voter is left out in the process. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Amar Patnaik on Tuesday said his party would "welcome" the Special ...

New Delhi, August 3, 2025 (ANI): On a 15-year-old girl who was set on fire by miscreants on June 19 in Balanga, Odisha, succumbed to her injuries, BJD MP Sasmit Patra said, “We, BJD MPs, came to AIIMS ...

BJD Rajya Sabha members on Tuesday staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the Parliament premises in Delhi, demanding justice for women who have been raped, assaulted and tortured in ...

A long stint at the helm and an inability to fully decouple from BJP's politics has left BJD unable to perfect an oppositional pitch in its voice Naveen Patnaik’s election as the president of the Biju ...

Odisha saw a stark contrast in the performance of BJD in the 2024 assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Odisha's former Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik on Thursday filed his ...