Lok Sabha Polls 2024: ‘Suicidal for us if…,’ Why BJP-BJD alliance talks failed in Odisha
Odisha's ruling talks ended without any fruitful solution and now both parties have decided to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 solo.
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Odisha's ruling talks ended without any fruitful solution and now both parties have decided to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 solo.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other party bigwigs including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party national president J P Nadda will be in attendance as BJP’s first-ever Chief Minister in Odisha Mohan Majhi and ally Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will be administered the oath of office and secrecy in Odisha and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
A week after the BJP stormed to power in Odisha on its own for the first time by winning 78 out of 147 seats, its state legislature unit is set to hold a meeting Tuesday to elect its leader, who will be sworn in as the Chief Minister the next day.
The BJP Legislature Party in Odisha will meet on Tuesday to elect its leader and the state’s new Chief Minister. The new government will take oath the following day, according to a senior party leader. The BJP on June 4 secured a majority by winning 78 seats in the 147-member Odisha Assembly. It also bagged 20 of 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
UNCERTAINTY OVER a popular healthcare scheme launched by the Naveen Patnaik government in 2018, which the BJP had promised to replace with the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana if it came to power in Odisha, has led to complaints of empanelled private hospitals turning away patients within days of a change of guard in the state.
With Odisha’s longest serving chief minister Naveen Patnaik tendering his resignation on Wednesday, a day after his party’s stunning defeat in the assembly polls, speculation is rife on who the BJP will pick to succeed him.
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.