Odisha Congress

Firebrand Congress leader and Jeypore MLA Taraprasad Bahinipati has been appointed as the Chief Whip of the Congress Party in Odisha Assembly. Chiranjib Biswal will be the Deputy Leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the Odisha…

1) A 54-year-old Security Guard, Gopal Chandra Ghosh, has shot himself dead, using his service rifle at the residence of Mayurbhanj District Collector in Baripada. Ghosh was working as the Security Guard of District Collector Rajesh…

Senior Congress leader and former MP Soumya Ranjan Patnaik was recently expelled from the party for ‘anti-party activities.’  Speculation was on the rife that the Congress top brass was contemplating disciplinary action against some senior…

In a shocking development, which will change the political equations in Odisha, former Lok Sabha MP and son-in-law of former CM and incumbent Assam Governor JB Patnaik, Mr. Soumya Ranjan Patnaik has been expelled from the Congress Party for…

In 2008, the BJD-BJP alliance secured 62 urban local bodies in Odisha, leaving the Congress far behind at just 20. The BJD won 47, while the BJP won 15 local bodies. At that time, Jayadev Jena was the PCC President. The situation is…

Ever since Jayadev Jena has taken over as the President of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), the rift within the party has become wide open. The faction, which supports Niranjan Patnaik, has waged an all-out war against the Jena…

A day after he was arrested for alleged land fraud, Sarala Realcon MD Gayadhar Jena has been sacked as the Vice Chairman of the OBC Cell of the Congress Party. The decision was taken by Odisha PCC President Jayadev Jena yesterday.…

Barely a month after the Congress High Command snubbed Niranjan Patnaik and replaced him with Jayadev Jena as the Odisha PCC President, Jagdish Tytler too lost his job as the Odisha In-Charge. BK Hariprasad has been given the charge of…

Despite making a big last ditch effort to save his chair, Niranjan Patnaik was shown the door by the Congress High Command, which realised the need for a change in leadership in Odisha. Former PCC President Jayadev Jena was finally…

While ruling BJD looks stronger for its impressive works and various developmental schemes, Odisha Congress followed an old strategy to influence the voters and roped in the film star-turned-politician K Chiranjeevi to campaign for the…