BJP hopes Karnataka show will reverberate in Odisha

Bhubaneswar | Wednesday | 16th May, 2018

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BHUBANESWAR: After Karnataka , Odisha becomes one of the key focus states for the BJP BJP president Amit Shah has earlier said his party’s golden age would not come till the BJP wins Odisha, Bengal and Kerala. BJD spokesperson Amar Prasad Satpathy said polls in Karnataka and elsewhere in the country will have no bearing in Odisha. BJP leaders here feel Odisha is more achievable since the Congress is decimated and Naveen Patnaik has the anti-incumbency of four terms.BJP president Basanta Panda said the south show will reverberate in the east. “When there was talk of Narenda Modi wave across the country in 2014, our party won 20 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats and 117 out of 147 assembly seats. “In Odisha, the BJD is very strong and the Congress is very weak..