Despite ideological differences with the Congress, the BJP is most likely to ally with the former to embarrass the Biju Janata Dal in the ensuing Rajya Sabha elections.
Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu, who rushed to Orissa on Thursday to hold discussions with the party MLAs with regard to the RS polls, told reporters after the meeting that his party had no sympathy for the BJD.

Planned large-scale mechanised mining of minerals contributes substantially to the state and national exchequers. This is well-evident in the case of Orissa.

Tension prevailed on Tuesday at the proposed Posco project site near port town Paradip as eight platoons of armed police conducted flag march apparently to create a fear psychosis among the local people ahead of the survey work at Dhinkia and Nuagoan panchayats.

The Orissa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday sprang a surprise by announcing that it would not support any Congress-sponsored or Independent candidate contesting the Rajya Sabha polls and abstain from voting.

The Congress, the main Opposition in Orissa, is yet undecided whether or not to field its candidate for the coming Rajya Sabha polls, even as three candidates of the ruling BJD filed their nomination papers on Friday.

The ruling BJD on Wednesday officially announced names of candidates for the coming Rajya Sabha polls. At least three seats are going to fall vacant on July 1.
While Mr Pyari Mohan Mohapatra was declared as the first candidate, Mr Sashi Bhusan Behera and Mr Baishnab Parida were chosen as the second and third c

After the notification for filing nominations papers for Rajya Sabha polls was made Monday, political parties in the state have geared up to field their candidates for the three seats that are going to fall vacant on July 1.

After the Biju Janata Dal president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik recently announced that the his party leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra would be renominated to Rajya Sabha for the second term, the race for the two other seats, going to fall vacant on July 1, has just begun.

The Orissa police on Sunday arrested three youths on charges of luring girls from their homes on the promise of marrying them and later engaging them in making sex videos to earn quick money.

Pappu can dance now. This is what the Opposition parties in Orissa have started to believe after a decade of political humiliations and subjugation by the ruling BJD headed by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.