BHUBANESWAR: A series of tweets by BJD MP Tathagata Satpathy alleging that the BJP is trying to split the BJD and try to advance assembly election in Odisha ahead of BJP's two-day national executive here from April 15 has created furore in political circles here. "BJP hard at work to divide @bjd_odisha in Parliament, maybe even in assembly. They want AIADMK type split," tweeted the Dhenkanal MP (@SatpathyLive)"They want to take away @bjd_odisha's party name & symbol. Rumors afloat that only one MP will swing this deal for them. Ha! ...If split happens, no matter how small, BJP will try for early elections in Orissa with Raj(asthan), Guj(arat), MP (Madhya Pradesh). Will EC play along?," he wrote.The Assembly election in Odisha is scheduled simultaneously with the Lok Sabha in 2019. Satpathy wrote that the BJP National Convention scheduled on April 15-15 in Odisha is make the Naveen Patnaik government defunct. Amid speculation about who is the one MP that Satpathy has indicated would join the saffron party, BJD Kendrapada MP Baijayant Panda joined the twitter war with his colleague. Commenting on a twitterati's question on Satpathy's comment, Panda (@@PandaJay) wrote: "He (Satpathy) speaks w/ expertise, having once been suspended from BJD & joined another party. I don't have such experience, so will defer to his."Satpathy was suspended from the BJD in 2000 for anti-party activities. He had joined the Orissa Gana Parishad (OGP) founded and led by Bijoy Mohapatra and served as its general secretary. Satpathy staged a comeback in BJD just before the 2004 LS election.Reacting on Satpathy's tweets, senior BJD leader and former minister Surya Narayan Patro said the MP may be privy to information which he doesn't have. "Satpathy stays in Delhi for long. He may have knowledge of what is going in the central hall (of Parliament)," Patro told reporters here.Reacting to Satpathy's tweets, BJP national secretary Suresh Pujari said the BJP has no intention to break the BJD. "We will fight election on the basis of our own strength. The BJD seems to be in panic with growing people's support for the BJP," Pujari said.

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