New Delhi: The ruling BJP government at the Centre is understood to be preparing a report card, highlighting the “failures” of the Odisha government along with other governments ruled by the opposition parties.
The states in focus, apart from Odisha, are West Bengal led by Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, Punjab under the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government, Kerala under a Left Democratic Front (LDF) administration headed by Pinarayi Vijayan, Delhi under Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Telangana, where K. Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is in power.
According to news portal The Print, think-tanks associated with the party have been tasked with preparing these reports, which would aim to compare the promises made by these parties in their respective manifestos, and how they delivered on them.
Sources said that though the election was being contested on the issue of nationalism, the BJP did not want to leave any room for opposition attack on the issue of performance.
The BJP is locked in a pitched battle with the BJD government in Odisha, which will be going to polls in four phases from April 11.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has embarked upon extensive campaigning in Odisha, has raised the pitch against the Naveen Patnaik administration in recent weeks, accusing it of failing on all fronts. Modi has urged the people to vote for the BJP government both at the Centre as well as in the state as a ‘double-engine’ government can only ensure faster development of Odisha.
