Remembering Odisha only during polls won’t help: Patnaik on Modi’s ‘name Odisha districts dare’
Patnaik said, "Nothing will happen on June 10, neither in another 10 years. The BJP can't win the hearts of the people of Odisha."
Patnaik said, "Nothing will happen on June 10, neither in another 10 years. The BJP can't win the hearts of the people of Odisha."
Addressing a poll rally at Kandhamal parliamentary constituency, Modi mocked Patnaik, saying: “Patnaik cannot name districts and their headquarters without reading from paper from a public platform. Can the CM gauge people’s distress who cannot even name districts without paper? Can you trust him for the children's future?”
From Odisha, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to address his first public meeting in Kandhamal at 10:30 a.m., followed by another in Bolangir at 12:15 p.m. and Bargarh at 1:45 p.m. Later, he will visit Jharkhand and address a public meeting in Chatra at 5 p.m.
Accusing the Biju Janata Dal of being "oblivious to people's grievances" and detached from the ground realities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Odisha will support the BJP in "record numbers" in the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in the state.
The entire 2.5 km stretch of the road from the BJP headquarters to Vani Vihar square came under a massive security ring as PM Modi embarked on his second roadshow in Bhubaneswar after five years.
The COVID-19 tally rose to 13,25,470, a bulletin issued by the department said, adding that Khurda district with 48 cases topped the daily Covid tally followed by Sundargarh at 36.
The nonagenarian (convict No.-7273/A), who was arrested for murder in March 2013 at the age of 85, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 January, 2015. Activists seek his premature release.
The mushrooming growth of the unauthorised institutes across Odisha has become a cause of concern for the state government. They are playing a cruel joke on young jobseekers and minting money in the process at their cost.
The death toll climbed to 9,154 as one fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours. Fifty-three other Covid patients have died due to comorbidities so far.
On August 1, the sleuths of the Detective Department (DD) of Kolkata Police nabbed Ranchi-based advocate Rajiv Kumar, with cash worth Rs 60 lakh from a shopping mall in central Kolkata.
