Ruling Biju Janata Dal of Odisha to fight all Lok Sabha seats, 147 Assembly seats alone in coming elections. This was informed by the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while addressing a public meeting in Badamba, Cuttack on Friday.
During the meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked people to vote for BJD in all the 21 Lok Sabha, lifting BJD’s chances of creating a mandate at the centre. This reveals that the party is all set to jump into the fray without support from left parties, which has been the closest ally of the BJD , ever since it snapped ties with BJP. BJD had left one Lok Sabha seat for the CPI(M) and one for the Nationalist Congress Party in 2009.
Naveen was further quoted saying that the talks of joining third front is premature, rekindling the hope of a probable alliance with the NDA after the polls. It should be noted that BJD had sealed an alliance with CPM in 2009, leaving 1 lok sabha seat and 5 assembly seats for the latter. Similarly, it had shared 1 loksabha seat(Baleswar) and 8 assembly seats with Nationalist Congress Party.
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