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Both sides have filed complaints, while police say an investigation is underway.

Odisha political clash: BJD workers stage protest before DGP office

December 15, 2025 12:40 pm

Biju Janata Dal leaders and workers staged a dharna in Bhubaneswar seeking arrests over a violent clash in Jajpur district that left at least 15 people injured.

Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Rajya Sabha member Debashish Samantaray and BJD president Naveen Patnaik.

‘Demeaning, humiliating’: BJD’s Rajya Sabha MP shoots off scathing letter to party chief Naveen Patnaik

November 25, 2025 5:40 pm

Questioning the style of functioning of the party, Samantaray appealed to Patnaik to thwart the attempt being made to weaken the BJD.

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Its former MLA arrested in murder case, BJD cries vendetta, hits the streets in protest

October 24, 2025 7:15 am

BJD sources said Thursday’s rally, attended by senior leaders from Bhubaneswar, was a show of strength. The regional party alleged that the BJP government in Odisha had launched vendetta politics to target opposition leaders.

Naveen Patnaik overhauls BJD, ‘sidelines’ critics in a single stroke, brings back PAC

May 06, 2025 6:23 am

Former Odisha CM had abolished the Political Affairs Committee over two decades ago to establish his grip over the party. Now it will be in charge of “collective decision-making”.

Naveen gets 9th term as BJD chief, asks party to aggressively expose BJP’s ‘false narrative’

April 20, 2025 3:46 am

Commencing his speech with the 'Jai Jagannath' chant, Patnaik said that the ideology of his father, Biju Patnaik, continued to remain the guiding principle of the BJD.

On April 19, Naveen Patnaik will be elected as the BJD president for the ninth consecutive time.

Latest voice of dissent in BJD: Senior MLA warns Naveen Patnaik against ‘few individuals hijacking party’

April 15, 2025 2:08 am

Veteran MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain also reminded the former CM of the values his father envisioned.

BJD MP on the party's Waqf shift: 'Naveen Patnaik's advisor is behind it... there is a secret deal with BJP'

April 06, 2025 12:23 pm

BJD MP Debashish Samantaray, who abstained from Waqf vote, says, “BJD was a secular party... It was against Waqf Bill, but its dual stand has completely changed the perception”

BJD Waqf U-turn: Worried leaders fear impact, say were in the dark till 6 pm in Rajya Sabha

April 04, 2025 7:09 pm

Senior leaders meet Naveen Patnaik, fear he continues to be "misled by an influential group"; Congress says proof that BJD continues to be close to BJP.

Probe reopens into daylight murder of ex-BJD minister Naba Das

March 19, 2025 1:35 am

Crime Branch records statements of his family members, law minister promises impartial investigation

TMC, BJP go to EC over voter ID row, BJD flags vote ‘variance’

March 12, 2025 5:40 am

A Biju Janata Dal delegation also met the poll panel on Tuesday and alleged “unusual variances” in the votes cast in the 2024 Parliament and Assembly elections in the state