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The Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha is gearing up for a high-profile contest after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Wednesday announced its first list of candidates and fielded its organisational secretary and sitting Jajpur MLA, Pranab Prakash Das against Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who is the BJP’s pick for the seat.
After much deliberations, held across Bhubaneswar and Delhi, the BJD and BJP have decided not to form an alliance, with Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal declaring Friday that the party would fight all the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies and 147 Assembly seats alone in the coming simultaneous polls.
After much deliberations, held across Bhubaneswar and Delhi, the BJD and BJP have decided not to form an alliance, with Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal declaring Friday that the party would fight all the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies and 147 Assembly seats alone in the coming simultaneous polls.
Buzz around the alliance between the BJP and Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha gained pace on Tuesday after comments from the Odisha CM’s close aide V K Pandian.
Like in 2019, the simultaneous elections in Odisha this time will be held in four phases, with the only difference this time being that the state will vote in the last four of the seven phases, unlike last time when it voted in the first four phases.
Fifteen years after it broke a decade-long alliance with the BJP, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) headed by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is set to return to the NDA fold and fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in alliance with the party that had emerged as its principal opponent in recent years.
THE RETURN of the BJD to the BJP’s side has been some time in the making, with the state party careful to sustain cordial ties with the ruling party at the Centre, despite the two being prime opponents in Odisha for some time now.
The big question doing the rounds in the Odisha political circles ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state on March 5 is whether the BJP and the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) announce their alliance for the upcoming simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.