BJP’s Vote Share To Witness Big Jump In Odisha, Says Prashant Kishor

Bhubaneswar: Vote share of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to witness a big jump in Odisha in the upcoming elections, noted political strategist and tactician Prashant Kishor has predicted.

Kishor, popularly known as ‘PK,’ claimed that BJP is likely to win more number of Lok Sabha seats in states like Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala than it got in 2019 elections.

Declining to hazard a guess on the number of seats that BJP can win in these states, he said that the saffron party’s tally will certainly go up from what it got in 2019.

“It is important to understand that their vote share will go up dramatically. In Odisha, they are already number one,” Kishor said while speaking at the Hyderabad Dialogues organised by The New Indian Express.

Describing BJP’s target of 400 Lok Sabah seats in the upcoming polls as a psychological warfare, the ace political strategist said that the saffron party on its own is highly unlikely to win 370 seats.

Stating that BJP’s graph is increasing in eastern and southern parts of the country, he said it may not immediately translate into a dramatically higher number of seats, but definitely this tally is going to go up.

Kishor’s statement assumes significant as it comes amid speculations that BJP and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) may enter into a pact for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha. There are indications that both the parties are likely to forge an electoral alliance, though no confirmation has so far been made by them.

Political observers are of the view that BJP may win more number of Lok Sabha seats in the state than it had bagged in 2019 elections, while its gain in Assembly polls is unlikely to be phenomenal.