The fissures within the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) have deepened, with seven former MLAs urging introspection over the party’s decision to leave the voting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 ...

As many as 19 people, including 16 policemen, were injured in stone-pelting by the agitators. A BJD delegation submitted a memorandum to the NCST, through its regional office in Bhubaneswar ...

Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik was unanimously re-elected as Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president for the ninth time in a row on Saturday Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha chief minister Naveen ...

Waqf Amendment Bill: All doesn't seem well within the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) headed by former chief minister Naveen Patnaik as senior leaders of the regional outfit voiced their ...

Bhubaneswar: The Naveen Patnaik-led BJD, which had decided to oppose the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2025, in Rajya Sabha, left it to individual members to take a call on the issue in case voting takes ...

BHUBANESWAR: BJD president and leader of Opposition Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said Odisha saw a new age of development and progress during his 24-year-long government. Addressing the Odisha Day ...

Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo and former chief minister Naveen Patnaik is poised to extend his leadership of the regional party for the ninth consecutive term as he filed his nomination papers for the ...

Sources said the young leaders are likely to meet Patnaik on Wednesday. The BJD did not issue a whip when the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill came up for voting in Rajya Sabha and left it to the ...