Former BJD MLA Rajendra Kumar Das To Join BJP On March 4

by Hemanta Pande

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Ahead of the ensuing simultaneous Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections, former Dhamnagar MLA Rajendra Kumar Das will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 4, sources said on Saturday.

Bhubaneswar, Mar 2: Ahead of the ensuing simultaneous Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly elections, former Dhamnagar MLA Rajendra Kumar Das will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 4, sources said on Saturday.

Das, popularly known as Raju Das, won as an MLA from Dhamnagar constituency in Bhadrak district on a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ticket in 2009. The BJD denied him a ticket in 2014 polls. The regional party again gave him the party ticket in 2019, but he lost.

During the 2022 Dhamnagar by-poll, BJD again denied Das a party ticket, following which he filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate and lost. Later, Das was expelled from the BJD for his alleged anti-party activities.

In the last two weeks, three sitting BJD MLAs - Jaydev MLA Arabinda Dhali, Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi and Chilika MLA Prasanta Kumar Jagadev- joined the saffron party.

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BJP's Dharmendra Pradhan Serves Food To Party Leaders, Supporters

by Utkalika Mohanty

Angul, Apr 27: Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate from Sambalpur, Dharmendra Pradhan served food to party leaders and supporters after a party meeting at Chhendipada in Angul district, under the Sambalpur parliamentary constituency.

Earlier, Dharmendra Pradhan along with BJP Chhendipada assembly candidate, Agasti Behera held a roadshow in Chhendipada under the Sambalpur parliamentary constituency.

Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pradhan said, "For the complete majority in Odisha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah sought the blessings of the people and said that if once the BJP forms a government with full majority in Odisha, then unprecedented development stream will reach Odisha, it will become the Odisha of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's imagination, it will become the Odisha of development. This time Odisha will participate prominently in the slogan of '400 paar'..."

Meanwhile, rebutting the statement of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that development is the identity of the state government, Union Minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Sambalpur, Dharmendra Pradhan said that the CM should tell whether people are leaving the state or not in search of jobs.

It is noteworthy that Dharmendra Pradhan, who is the BJP candidate from Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency, is contesting elections after a gap of 15 years. Sambalpur goes to the polls on May 25.

(ANI)

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Nadda To Visit Odisha Tomorrow

by Manisha Das

Bhubaneswar, Apr 27: After Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda is scheduled to visit Odisha tomorrow to campaign for party candidates ahead of the general elections in 2024.

The national president is scheduled to reach the State Capital (Bhubaneswar) airport at 4:30 PM.

From Bhubaneswar, Nadda is scheduled to visit Berhampur Rangeilunda Airstrip.

At 5:30 PM Nadda will attend a general meeting in Ambapua.

At 6:45 PM Nadda will join the BJP worker's meeting, where party workers from Berhampur, Aska, Nabarangpur, and Koraput will also join.

After spending the night in Berhampur, Nadda will fly back to Delhi the next morning.

TN: Gold over Rs 70 lakh hidden in passenger's rectum seized at Trichy airport

by Utkalika Mohanty

Tiruchirappalli, Apr 27: Officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at Tiruchirappalli airport in Tamil Nadu seized a total of 977 grams of of 24K Gold valued at Rs 70.58 lakh from a passenger arriving from Dubai.

According to the officials, the gold was concealed in the three packets consisting of 1081 grams of paste like material in the rectum of the passenger.

The passenger was travelling from Dubai to Trichy on the Air India Express. The passenger has been arrested and further investigation is underway.

Earlier, this March, the AIU officials at Tiruchirappalli airport seized 410 grams of gold valued at Rs. 26.62 lakh from a passenger arriving from Singapore.

According to the officials, the seized gold consisted of 330 grams of 24K gold extracted from paste-like material and 80 grams of 22K gold concealed inside the vest of a passenger travelling from Singapore to Trichy.

(ANI)

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Former BJD MLA Rajendra Kumar Das To Join BJP On March 4

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