Naveen Patnaik, for the first time in his long twenty years in government, had contested from two seats during the simultaneous state and g...

BJD candidate Rita Sahu has secured over 73 per cent of the total polled votes while Gartia has garnered around 20 per cent of it.

The Assembly by-elections are in progress in five seats of Bihar, four in Assam, three in Sikkim, one each in Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and...

Bypolls would be held for at least 41 assembly seats and two MLC posts in the next six months.

Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik is leading in both Bijepur and his home turf Hinjili Assembly constituencies.

When asked which one he'd let go off if he won both seats, the four- time CM said, “We shall see then”.

Brajendra Singh Yadav of the Congress defeated his BJP rival Baisahab Yadav by a margin of 2,124 votes to win the Mungaoli seat while in Ko...

The ruling party’s candidate, Rita Sahu, widow of three-time Congress Bijepur MLA, won with 102,871 votes leaving behind BJP’s Ashok Paniga...

Sahu won the by-election by defeating her nearest BJP rival Ashok Panigrahi by a margin of 41,933 votes, an EC official said.

The BJD earlier used to nominate non-political representatives, too, to the upper house of Parliament from the state.

Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the by-poll in the constituency located in Bargarh district, especially in the wake of p...

Odisha’s two union ministers, Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram, have been camping in western Odisha district for the last five days.

The by-election to the Bijepur Assembly constituency in Odisha will be held on February 24 and the counting of votes will take place on Feb...

Mohanty had unsuccessfully contested from Cuttack Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate in the 2014 general elections. She quit the Congre...

In September ruling party BJD had shaken things up by welcoming Rita Sahu, widow of Bijepur MLA Subal Sahu, into its fold.

While bypoll for the Bijepur Assembly was necessitated following the death of three-time Congress MLA Subal Sahu in August this year, the e...

Senior Congress leader and former Odisha minister Mohan Nag died at a private hospital here, family sources said today.