Lok Sabha elections are due to be held in seven phases beginning April 19. Odisha will vote both for General and Assembly elections in the last four phases simultaneously.
The development comes hours after the Bhartiya Janta Party announced that it will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha and the Assembly polls in the state which means there will be no alliance between the BJP and Naveen Patnaik-led BJD.
BJP to contest both Lok Sabha elections and the Odisha Assembly polls without alliance with Naveen Patnaik's BJP.
As the possibility of BJD-BJP alliance lingers ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has called a meeting of the party leaders to hold a discussion on the matter. State BJP leaders held a meeting with Amit Shah on Wednesday night, sources said.
BJP Odisha president Manmohan Samal said that they had visited Delhi to hold discussions with the central leaders on the party’s preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state in which there were no talks over alliance.
Negotiations between Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have reached a standstill over seat allocation for the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
The BJD leaders held a meeting after which they said that the party's decision would be in the 'larger interest of the state'. Several of them said that they were unsure if they could contest the next elections from their existing seats.
PM Modi, who was in Odisha on Tuesday, launched multiple development projects worth over Rs 19,600 crore in Jajpur district. He acknowledged the progress being made in the state and refrained from criticising Naveen Patnaik's government.
Puri Lok Sabha Election 2024: Biju Janata Dal (BJP) leader Pinaki Misra has been representing the Odisha's Puri constituency since 2009. Misra won the seat in 1996 also as a Congress nominee.
Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) won the constituency five times in a row from 1998 to 2019. The party lost the election to BJP's Aparajita Sarangi for the first time in the 2019 polls.
The Biju Janata Dal(BJD) announced the names of Debashish Samantaray and Subhasish Khuntia as nominees to the Rajya Sabha. However, the ruling party is yet to announce its third nominee.
Odisha news: Congress has revoked the suspension of senior leaders Mohammed Moquim and Chiranjib Biswal ahead of the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
India TV-CNX Opinion Poll: According to India TV-CNX opinion poll, BJP is likely to get 8 seats in Odisha while Congress will get zero seats if Lok Sabha Elections 2024 are held today.
As the editor of Odia daily Sambad, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik had written two signed editorials attacking his own party. He had criticised CM’s private secretary VK Pandian for allegedly exercising influence beyond his official position.
With the Opposition consolidating its presence and unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled in 2024, the move was branded a "distraction" by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Naveen Patnaik's party BJD backed the BJP during the Delhi Services Bill in Rajya Sabha and the No-Confidence Motion brought in by the Opposition in Lok Sabha in the Monsoon Session of the Parliament.
Amit Shah will visit Odisha today amid the BJD's support to the BJP in the Parliament over the Delhi Services Bill. Shah is slated to attend a number of meetings including on left-wing extremism.
India TV has conducted an opinion poll to analyse which party will have an edge if Lok Sabha elections are held today.
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A government official was arrested by the Odisha Vigilance Department in a disproportionate assets case. He was later sent to 14-day judicial custody.
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