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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will have to play a key role if the BJP succeeds in replacing the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) that has dominated Odisha politics since its formation in 1997.
THERE IS hardly any election conversation in Odisha where his name doesn’t come up. Till recently a top bureaucrat, V K Pandian is now the virtual No. 2 of the ruling BJD in the state and the man who has the ears of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He is also the main target of the BJP’s attack, which hopes to stall the BJD in its home state, where it has been in power now for over 24 years. As the two parties, which briefly contemplated an alliance, now take on each other as prime rivals, Pandian recently said the BJP may try to form the government by any means if it gets 50-60 seats in Assembly polls. Excerpts from an interview with Pandian at Gopalpur, before he left for his day’s campaign:
On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue with his campaign schedule in Jharkhand and Bihar.
The BJD Wednesday announced candidates for five more Lok Sabha seats and 27 more Assembly constituencies, and with this list, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik-led party has now cleared names for 20 of the total 21 parliamentary seats and 99 Assembly segments.
Ranjita Sahu began connecting with the people of her small town Kodala in Ganjam district of Odisha, when she returned from Bengaluru after completing her higher studies in 2015, connecting migrant workers from Ganjam working in Gujarat’s Surat with their elderly parents back home.
Journalists remember former IPS officer Arup Patnaik’s tenure as the Mumbai Police commissioner as a “newsy” time, given the number of unusual changes brought about by him after being appointed the city top cop. The 1979 batch IPS officer from Odisha, who retired in 2015, has again hit the headlines now.
Journalists remember former IPS officer Arup Patnaik’s tenure as the Mumbai Police commissioner as a “newsy” time, given the number of unusual changes brought about by him after being appointed the city top cop. The 1979 batch IPS officer from Odisha, who retired in 2015, has again hit the headlines now.
Like in 2019, the simultaneous elections in Odisha this time will be held in four phases, with the only difference this time being that the state will vote in the last four of the seven phases, unlike last time when it voted in the first four phases.