NEW DELHI: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is grappling with internal unrest following Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra’s support for the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. Senior party leaders, including former ...

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 ...

BJD president Naveen Patnaik held a meeting with his party’s Rajya Sabha MPs on Monday (June 24) and asked them to emerge as a “vibrant and strong” Opposition in the Upper House of the Parliament as ...

Faced with the twin pressures of BJP’s expectation of explicit support and internal calls for at least abstention to preserve manoeuvrability, Patnaik seems to have chosen the latter. The Biju Janata ...

Bhubaneswar: BJD announced on Friday that it will gherao all three revenue divisional commissioner (RDC) offices in Berhampur, Cuttack and Sambalpur on July 21 protesting alleged systemic failure ...

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: Even after 78 years of independence, social ostracization remains prevalent in many tribal communities across Odisha. The latest case involves former Congress MP and BJD leader Pradeep ...

Amid speculations of the BJP and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) forging a formal alliance for the coming elections, both parties on Wednesday held hectic deliberations at their own levels to ...

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 ...

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 ...

BJD fulfills 33% women candidates promise for Odisha's Lok Sabha seats. Lekhashree Samantsinghar announced for Balasore. 7th woman candidate named. Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday ...

The principal opposition party of Odisha, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), announced on Monday that its MPs will abstain from voting in the vice-presidential election. The party, headed by former chief ...