“For the last 10 years, Odisha Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under the leadership of Naveen Patnaik has been extending support to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on many issues of national importance. We thank him for that”, Samal said on X (formerly Twitter) handle.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fight alone in the upcoming polls for 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats in Odisha, State BJP President Manmohan Samal said on Friday.
With this, the month-long speculation of BJD entering into an electoral pact with BJD has been put to an end for all practical purposes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Odisha on 5 March had addressed Naveen Patnaik as “lokpriya” (popular) chief minister and it had fuelled speculation of a possibility of an electoral tie-up between the BJD and the BJP. The alliance between the saffron party and the regional party had parted ways and broke up just before the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Both the parties had remained into a successful poll alliance from 2000 to 2009.
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“For the last 10 years, Odisha Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under the leadership of Naveen Patnaik has been extending support to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on many issues of national importance. We thank him for that”, Samal said on X (formerly Twitter) handle.
”We are of the view that in all the states that have double-engine governments across the country, development and poverty alleviation schemes have been accelerated and the respective states are also registering progress in all spheres.
”But today in Odisha many of the welfare schemes of the Modi government are not reaching the grass root level. As a result poor people of Odisha are unable to reap benefits of these schemes. We have points of disagreement with the state government on several issues concerning Odisha’s pride and larger interests of the people of the state,” he said.
BJP will fight alone this time in all 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats to usher in a developed India and a developed Odisha under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the hopes, aspirations of 4.4 crore Odia people, Samal concluded.
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