BJP Says Odisha Will Have Double-Engine Govt In 2024 With Ouster Of BJD From Power

Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday claimed it will win the next Assembly election in Odisha to ensure a double-engine government next year.

Soon after returning from a visit to New Delhi, BJP’s state unit president Manmohan Samal claimed that BJP is all set to form government both at the Centre as well as Odisha in the next elections due next year.

Stating that the saffron party will entirely focus on Odisha Assembly election to be held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls, Samal said BJP will form its government in the state. The people of Odisha want the BJP to come to power in the state as they are fed up with the ruling BJD, he told reporters.

The senior BJP leader said all the central party leaders are keen to see a double-engine government and a strategy is being finalised to achieve the goal. Top BJP leaders are already in touch with the leaders in the state and further discussion will be held in Delhi to fine-tune the strategy, he said.

Stating that the central leadership has directed state party to focus on villages and see situation at the grassroots, Samal said the state leaders have been assigned tasks and asked to undertake visits the different panchayats.

Noting that party leaders have already covered 11,000 panchayats, he said over 5000 remaining panchayats will be covered. All party leaders, functionaries, workers, and MPs will tour the villages as part of the ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra,’ the senior BJP leader said.

Ridiculing the BJP move, senior BJD leader and former Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said the saffron party is trying to do things which were done by BJD long ago.