A long stint at the helm and an inability to fully decouple from the politics that BJP also endorses, has left BJD unable to perfect an oppositional pitch in its voice. This is compounded by the ...

“There is also sympathy wave that political parties often ride,” he said. While BJD spokespersons remained tight-lipped on why so many from political families have been nominated, the party ...

BJD president and five-time Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik Monday revamped the regional party and brought back political affairs committee (PAC). Though the BJD initially had the PAC ...

Many of the party’s leaders seem to have lost sight of the original reasons for the BJD’s formation, its core ideologies, and its position in the evolving national political landscape.

BJD Rajya Sabha MPs Sulata Deo and Sasmit Patra said that the Raj Bhavan should remain above politics, but, visits of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and former vice-president Venkaiah ...

Notably, this is not the first time the Odisha-based political party has extended its support to the ruling BJP on contentious in the Rajya Sabha. The BJD is the second party after the YSR ...

The BJP, which remained the BJD’s partner in the alliance that ruled Odisha for nine years from 2000 to 2009, ousted the regional party from power this time by bagging 20 of the 21 Lok Sabha ...