From 2000, the Biju Janata Dal and Bharatiya Janata had ruled Odisha in a coalition government for close to nine years. In 2009, the Biju Janata Dal formed its own government for the first time.

The Biju Janata Dal won a huge victory in the 2014 general election securing 20 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 117 of 147 Odisha Legislative Assembly seats. End of Article.

Not that the ‘ayes’ and ‘nays’ would matter given the heavily-stacked numbers in favour of BJP but the Biju Janata Dal’s policy of equidistance will be closely . E-PAPER; ...

Biju Janata Dal MLA Jyotiprakash Panigrahi resigns from party Panigrahi is the second BJD MLA in Balasore district after Soro MLA Parsuram Dhada to resign from the party after being denied a party ...

When the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was formed on December 26, 1997 and Naveen Patnaik became its president, very few politicians would have imagined that the new regional party could transform itself ...