Senior BJD leader Ranendra Pratap Swain has cautioned Naveen Patnaik about potential attempts to hijack the party, citing concerns over the Waqf Amendment Act and its implications for secularism.

Senior BJD MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain wrote to party chief Naveen Patnaik saying that the Waqf Bill controversy has raised serious questions about the party’s stand on secularism Bhubaneswar ...

Bhubaneshwar: It is not very often that Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik gives statements before the media, rebuking seniors in his party. It is even rarer for any senior to openly counter ...

Former Banki MLA Pravat Tripathy on Thursday challenged Naveen Patnaik’s statement that he (Tripathy) is not a member of the party and had earlier been expelled from it. On Wednesday, Naveen had said: ...

Bhubaneswar: Amidst the ongoing flip-flop over supporting the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in Parliament, BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday came out in support of his close aide V K Pandian and ...

Bhubaneswar: As a section of BJD leaders are still unhappy with the party’s flip-flop over supporting the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, the regional outfit’s president Naveen Patnaik held a meeting ...

BHUBANESWAR: As the crisis in the BJD over the change of stand on the Waqf Amendment Bill intensified, party president Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday threw his weight behind trusted aide VK Pandian ...

party supremo and former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday broke his silence, hinting that the split vote by BJD’s Rajya Sabha MPs may have been at his behest. Patnaik’s ...

Noting that VK Pandian has done a lot of good work for the state and the party, former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said that the former bureaucrat-turned-politician left the BJD over ...

Naveen Patnaik said the allegations against Pandian were “baseless and exaggerated” and that Pandian continued to be a figure of “integrity and dedication”. BHUBANESWAR: Former Odisha ...

Amid turmoil in the BJD over Waqf Bill voting that sparked internal conflict and speculations about a split, party chief Naveen Patnaik came out in support of VK Pandian and vehemently denied his ...