➡️ CPI, the ally of Congress’s INDIA bloc, will field its candidate in the Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha seat for the 2024 election.
➡️ BJP will provide a monthly allowance of Rs 1000 to women in Odisha under the Shakti Vandana programme if it comes to power.
➡️ BJD announces nine more candidates for Assembly polls and fields turncoat Lekhashree Samantsinghar from Balasore Lok Sabha seat.
➡️ BJP’s Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi takes a dig at BJD over VISION 5T blank page on govt portal saying ‘Why this Kolaveri-D??’
➡️BJP leader Prashant Jagdev under the scanner for “misbehaving” with a journalist during padayatra. Case filed against him in Jankia, Khordha.
➡️ BJP alleges distribution of money and violation of model code of conduct by BJD’s Umakanta Samantaray from Bramhagiri Assembly seat in Puri.
➡️ Odisha Assembly Speaker disqualifies two MLAs- Premananda Nayak and Arabinda Dhali, under anti-defection law. Both of them had recently joined BJP after quitting BJD.
➡️ Former Odisha Women Commission Chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi and her husband Saroj Panigrahi resigned from the BJD.
➡️ BJP will change its Pottangi Assembly (ST) candidate as he reportedly belongs to SC community.
