Sundargarh has seven assembly seats: Sundargarh, Talsara, Rajgangpur, Biramitrapur, Rourkela, Raghunathpali and Oram’s hometown, Bonai.

The four-time MP and the country’s first minister for tribal affairs had won this seat in 1998, 1999 and 2004 elections as well.

That was the promise the Biju Janat Dal chief made to senior colleagues, legislators and other personalities.

AICC on Thursday also announced three new working presidents — Naba Das, Chiranjiv Biswal and Pradeep Majhi — each in charge of a region of...

"Inspired by the ideology of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, we will work for him. But, we will continue to support Hemananda Biswal as a br...

Patnaik, who broke the record of his legendary father Biju Patnaik, also crossed milestones set by other state leaders like Dr Harekrushna ...

Odisha recorded the highest of 67% for 10 LS and 70 Assembly seats, J'khand 58.3 for four LS seats, Andaman and Nicobar 55.9% for one LS se...

BJP candidate Jual Oram had drawn EC's attention objecting the use of Padma title by Tirkey in the publicity material.

Rajya Sabha member Tirkey is making his debut in electoral politics on a BJD ticket from the tribal belt of Sundargarh, also called the nur...

Protesting against the method used for candidate selection by the party, Biswal announced he would not contest polls.

Former Union Minister A Raja, the main accused in 2G spectrum scam, and Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the Commonwealth Games scam, have been m...

With Congress at least improving its tally of two Lok Sabha seats in 2004 polls to six in the just concluded poll, at least two party MPs f...