Odisha: No alliance with Biju Janata Dal for Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, says BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said that it will not form an alliance with the Biju Janata Dal for the Lok Sabha elections and the Assembly polls in Odisha.

Odisha has 21 Lok Sabha constituencies and 147 Assembly seats.

BJP’s Odisha chief Manmohan Samal on Friday expressed gratitude to Naveen Patnaik, the chief of the Biju Janata Dal, for supporting the saffron party in the Center in “several matters of national importance”.

However, Samal said in a social media post, many welfare schemes of the Union government are not reaching the ground, depriving the people in the state of its benefits.

“Experience has shown that wherever there has been a double-engine government in the country, development and welfare work has accelerated and the state has progressed in every field,” Samal said.

He added that the BJP has concerns on several issues related to Odisha’s identity and the interest of the people of the state.

विगत 10 वर्षों से, श्री नवीन पटनायक जी के नेतृत्व में ओडिशा की बीजू जनता दल (बीजेडी) पार्टी केंद्र की माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी की सरकार के अनेक राष्ट्रीय महत्व के प्रसंगों में समर्थन देती आई है, इसके लिए हम उनका आभार व्यक्त करते हैं।

अनुभव में आया है कि देशभर…— Manmohan Samal (Modi Ka Parivar) (@SamalManmohan7) March 22, 2024

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