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.

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.

Former Jharkhand chief minister and BJP national secretary Arjun Munda on Wednesday alleged that the imposition of President’s Rule in his state was an attempt by the Congress to perpetrate its “proxy rule” there.

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.

Friday was a day of mixed experiences for the world’s two leading steel makers — Tata Steel and Pohang Steel Company (Posco) of South Korea.
Tata Steel, laid the foundation stone for its proposed six-million-tonne project at Orissa’s Kalinga Nagar plant at Ambagadia after a five-year long battle.

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.

CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Friday dubbed chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s Thursday talks with the local legislators of Jagatsinghpur district as “disappointing” and claimed that it would not lead to any “tangible solution.”