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According to the schedule, the Prime Minister will arrive here on a two-day visit on Sunday evening. He will spend the night at Raj Bhawan and visit Puri the next morning. After paying obeisance to Lord Jagannath, the Prime Minister will hold a mega roadshow in the pilgrim town and seek people's support for his party candidates in the upcoming elections.

Party sources also informed that the Prime Minister is scheduled to attend BJP's Bijay Sankalpa Samavesh at Angul and Cuttack. 

It may be noted that the Prime Minister has already come to Odisha twice and campaigned for the party's MP and MLA candidates at Vijay Sankalap Samavesh at Berhampur, Nabarangpur and Kantabanji in Bolangir district. During his second visit, he also conducted a mega roadshow at Bhubaneswar. 

The Prime Minister's assertion that the ruling BJD's expiry date is June 4 (Vote counting day)BJP will form a government in Odisha on June 10 has increased the confidence in party workers and shivered the spine of the ruling party. 

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Polling is being held for both Parliamentary and Assembly elections in four phases in the State. While the first phase of voting was done on May 13, the next three pahses are scheduled for May 20, May 25 and June 1. Vote counting is scheduled for June 4.    

Metropolitan magistrate Katyayini Sharma Kandwal recorded Maliwal’s statement in her chambers. Under section 164 CrPC, a judicial magistrate is empowered to record any statement or confession made before him during the course of an investigation.

After recording the statement of Maliwal, Delhi Police late on Thursday lodged an FIR under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman) of the IPC.

Subsequently, she underwent a medical examination at AIIMS.

Maliwal, the former Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), in her complaint, had alleged that while she was waiting in the drawing room at the Chief Minister's residence, his Private Secretary Bibhav Kumar came and without any provocation, slapped her and also delivered punches to her abdomen.

On Monday, DCP (North) Manoj Kumar Meena said that a PCR call was received at 9.34 a.m. at the Civil Lines police station, in which the caller claimed that she was assaulted by Chief Minister's PS Bibhav Kumar at CM Kejriwal's official residence.

(IANS)

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Addressing an election rally in Sambalpur, Pandian called "Swabhaba Kabi Gangadhar Meher" as "Santha Kabi Gangadhar Meher ''. He also said "Kabi Bhim Bhoi'' instead of  "Santha Kabi Bhim Bhoi" in his speech in the presence of BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, and BJD's organisational secretary Pranab Prakash Das.

The Tamil Nadu-born bureaucrat-turned-politician's remark on Odia legends sparked a huge political storm across the state as Opposition BJP has selectively made ‘Odia Asmita’ or Odia pride as its main poll plank this elections.

Earlier, the BJD government landed in controversy as the name of a renowned poet like Kanta Kabi (Laxmikanta Mohapatra) was mispronounced as ‘Kantha Kabi’ at the first World Odia Language Conference in Bhubaneswar. 

The assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Odisha are being held across four phases--from May 13 to June 1. 

Polling for the first phase was conducted in 28 Assembly seats and four Lok Sabha constituencies on May 13. In the fifth phase, 35 Assembly seats and five Lok Sabha constituencies will vote on May 20, 42 Assembly segments and six Lok Sabha seats on May 25 and the remaining 42 Assembly seats and six Lok Sabha constituencies in the last phase on June 1.

The results will be out on June 4.

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