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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.
Minutes after the BJP on February 14 announced Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s renomination to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha despite not having the number in the state Assembly, the ruling Naveen Patnaik-led BJD declared its support to his candidature “for the larger interest of the state’s railways and telecom development”.
Minutes after the BJP on February 14 announced Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s renomination to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha despite not having the number in the state Assembly, the ruling Naveen Patnaik-led BJD declared its support to his candidature “for the larger interest of the state’s railways and telecom development”.
The BJP’s Odisha unit got a shot in the arm ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls after expelled BJD leader and Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahy joined the party on Wednesday.
With the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) announcing support for his candidature, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s path to a second term in the Rajya Sabha from Odisha is all but clear, even as the move has triggered fresh speculations of a “tacit understanding” between the BJP and BJD.
Two months before the Congress’s Telangana unit was preparing for a fierce electoral battle with the incumbent BRS government last year, it had shared a wedding card that mentioned “BRS loves BJP”. The move was part of the Congress’s game plan to expose the “secret ties” between the BRS and the BJP — a narrative that helped the party break the KCR-led government’s decade-long hold in the southern state.