Patra, the BJP candidate from Puri Lok Sabha seat, landed in a row in Odisha on Monday after he told a local news channel that "Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." He later described it as a "slip of the tongue."
Hundreds of people lined up on both sides of the road and on terraces to get a glimpse of the Prime Minister, waving cut-out Modi posters and waving the party flag.
Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Puri Lok Sabha seat, Sambit Patra on Wednesday held a mega padayatra in Banpur.
BJP's candidate from the Puri Lok Sabha seat, Sambit Patra filed his nomination papers on Monday. He claimed that the BJP would win not only the Puri Lok Sabha seat but also all seven Vidhan Sabha seats with big margins.
Exuding confidence in winning the election, BJD candidate from Puri Lok Sabha seat Arup Patnaik on Thursday said that he is getting a positive response from the people while campaigning.
Patra said that after he lost elections in Puri in 2019, he decided to remain with the people through thick and thin, adding that all the work that has been done in Puri by him and the BJP has been detailed in the report card.
A day after being announced as the party's Lok Sabha pick from Puri, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra offered prayers at the iconic Jagannath Temple on Monday.
Taking a fresh swipe at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a day after the Delhi High Court dealt him a fresh blow, turning down the ruling AAP's request for an urgent listing of its plea against the former's arrest in the liquor policy case, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said on Sun
Reacting to the Congress' allegation over the 'freezing' of its bank accounts ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, BJP leader Sambit Patra said, "All political parties get an exemption in tax. Any party cannot be discriminated against in this. But why were Congress' accounts 'frozen'? The Congr
Taking a swipe at INDIA parties for going back on their previous statements critical of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and rallying around Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest in the excise policy case, BJP national spokesperson Samit Patra said many leaders in the Opposition bl