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“The BJP president and the Prime Minister have been making frequent tours of Odisha, but it has not yielded any result for the BJP. Given Naveen Patnaik’s popularity and performance, no further visit will have any impact on our party,” said BJD Rajya Sabha member Prasanna Acharya. We are moving on the right track.”BJD said the BJP’s political activities will have no impact on Odisha. He is coming here to review organisational works here. The PM is again likely to visit the state in July to inaugurate the Jharsuguda airport, which would be the PM’s sixth visit to the state after he took over.The frequent tours of Modi-Shah to Odisha is being seen as part of the BJP focus on the eastern state where the party had won in only one Lok Sabha seat (Jual Oram from Sundargarh) in 2014.Commenting on Shah’s upcoming visit, Jual said, “Our party president has earlier said that BJP’s Golden Period would not come till we form governments in Odisha and West Bengal ..