A t 78 years of age, most politicians might gracefully retreat from public life. But not Naveen Patnaik, Odisha’s longest-serving chief minister and now leader of the Opposition in the state. The defeat in the 2024 assembly and Lok Sabha elections could well have been the epilogue to his career, but Patnaik is intent on…
SAMBALPUR: Two local BJP functionaries were killed and two others injured after a speeding tipper truck rear-ended their car thrice on NH-53 in Odisha’s Sambalpur early Sunday, raising suspicions of a pre-planned murder.“Police are probing whether it was an accident or a pre-planned murder,” said Sambalpur SP Mukesh Bhamoo.The deceased – Debendra Nayak, BJP’s mandal…
Five months after taking power in Odisha, in a turn of events whose success may have surprised even the protagonist, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has one objective. To set a governance benchmark by which to distinguish itself from its predecessor. What it grapples with is this: a humble roots politician like Mohan Charan Majhi,…