Rajya Sabha

New Delhi: Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will support JD (U) candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh in the election for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman post. Bihar Chief Minister Bihar Chief Minister and JD (U) President Nitish Kumar again spoke…

New Delhi: The Election Commission today announced that the election of 18 Rajya Sabha seats from seven seats will be held on June 19. The poll body made the announcement after holding a review meeting to take stock of the ongoing…

New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha Amar Patnaik has given Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over the demand to confer Bharat Ratna on former Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik. There is a long standing…

Bhubaneswar: Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has praised Biju Janata Dal Member of Parliament Dr Sasmit Patra for cent percent attendance in the important meetings of all Parliamentary Standing Committees. He…

New Delhi: BJD MP Dr. Sasmit Patra on Friday raised the issues of Mahanadi and Polavaram affecting Odisha in the Zero Hour and spoke in Odia. After his submission, Vice President & Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu, said "Uttam…

New Delhi: Santhali, one of the most widely spoken languages of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, has made its debut in Rajya Sabha when Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Sarojini Hembram used it to raise an important…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during 250th session of Rajya Sabha has lauded Biju Janata Dal for its discipline and effective presentation of State's issues in the Upper House of the Parliament. Addressing the historic 250th…

New Delhi: In a significant development, Rajya Sabha MP, Prasanna Acharya has been appointed as the Chairman of the Petitions Committee of the upper house of the Parliament. Acharya succeeded BJP’s Prabhat Jha as Petitions Committee’s…

New Delhi: In a major development, the ruling Biju Janata Dal in Odisha  supported the bill which has the provision to repeal the article 370 of the constitution and bifurcate the state into two Union territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which…

New Delhi: Ghulam Nabi Azad, said  that by revoking Article 370 that accords special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP-led government has murdered the Consitution of India. " We stand by the constitution of India...we are willing to…