Bhubaneswar: Putting all speculations and talks over proposed alliance between BJD and BJP in rest, State BJP President Manmohan Samal today made it clear that the BJP will fight alone in all 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly seats in Odisha during ensuing polls.
Taking it to social media site X, Shri Samal said, “BJP will fight alone this time 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 fulfill the hopes, aspirations and aspirations of four and a half crore Odias.”
“We feel that in all the States across the country where double engine governments have been formed, development and welfare work has been accelerated and the respective States are also making progress in all areas,” he said.
However, in Odisha, many of the welfare schemes of the Modi Government are not reaching the grass root level, due to which the poor people of Odisha are not getting the benefits, he said.
The BJP president said his party cannot agree with the State Government on many issues related to Odisha-asmita (pride), glory of Odisha and interests of the people of Odisha.
Shri Samal also did not fail to thank the ruling BJD for supporting the Central Government on certain issues of national importance.
“For the last 10 years, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) under the leadership of Shri Naveen Patnaik has been supporting the government of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on many issues of national importance. We thank him for that,” he wrote on X.
This tweet from the State BJP President has cleared the air on possible alliance between the BJD and BJP, which was also accepted by senior leaders from both the parties earlier.
However, the Shri Samal has not given any indication why the alliance talks, which were going on for a long time, failed.