Lok Sabha Elections: Bharatiya Janata Party and Biju Janata Dal are set to fight alone in Lok Sabha election and Odisha Assembly election after the two parties failed to reach an agreement on alliance with Naveen Patnaik's BJD. Talks of pre-poll alliance were being held between the ruling BJD and the opposition BJP.
Odisha BJP chief Manmohan Samal said on Friday that the party will fight alone in all 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats in the state.
“Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fight this election alone in all 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats to create a developed India and a developed Odisha under the visionary leadership of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to fulfil the hopes, aspirations and aspirations of four and a half crore Odiyas,” Samal said in a post on X. PTI AAM NN
Manmohan Samal also expressed gratitude towards the Odisha CM and said that Naveen Patnaik's government has extended support to Central government in many matters in the last 10 years.
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"For the last 10 years, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party of Odisha, under the leadership of Shri Naveen Patnaik ji, has been supporting the Government of the Honorable Prime Minister of the Center Shri Narendra Modi ji in many matters of national importance, for this we express our gratitude to him. Are. Experience has shown that wherever there has been a double engine government across the country, development and poor welfare work has accelerated and the state has progressed in every field," the Odisha BJP chief said.
BJD Organisational Secretary Pranab Prakash Das said that the party will contest Lok Sabha polls and Assembly polls alone and win more than three fourth seats under the leadership of CM Naveen Patnaik. "BJD will contest in all 147 assembly constituencies and all 21 Lok Sabha constituencies with the support of people of Odisha and win more than three fourth seats under the leadership of Shri Naveen Patnaik," Das said on X.