“And then the mistreatment escalated,” he alleged. “I keep warning the chief priests,” said Arun Pandian, the executive officer at a temple in Trichy, whose non-brahmin priests alleged ...

Naveen Patnaik came out in strong defence of his close aide VK Pandian ...

Pandian, who was in the line of fire after humiliating poll debacle of the BJD in Odisha, announced his retirement from active politics in June last year. Pandian had joined the BJD on 28 November ...

Former Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday came out in defence of his former aide VK Pandian, saying he should not be criticised or blamed for anything related to the ...

In 2020 Assembly election, Bihar had over 125 political parties, apart from the unrecognised ones registered outside the state, and it could get bigger this time.

In an oblique reference to former bureaucrat-turned-BJD leader V K Pandian, Samantaray blamed Patnaik’s “advisor” for the party’s about-turn on the Bill. Some other party leaders have also targeted ...

Story continues below this ad Though Behera refused to take any specific names when asked who he was referring to as an “outside force”, it was seen as an oblique reference to V K Pandian, Patnaik’s ...