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Bhubaneswar: On a daylong visit to Odisha on January 18, BJP president Amit Shah will have separate meetings with booth-level workers of four Lok Sabha seats where BJD has witnessed political turmoil in recent times. But nothing will matter with the rising popularity of chief minister Naveen Patnaik,” said BJD MLA and spokesperson Samir Ranjan Dash. “No BJP strategy can work when people are with Naveen,” he said. Sasmit Patra, another BJD spokesperson, said in Odisha, there is a pro-incumbency ambience because of the performance and pro-people initiatives of the Naveen government. This is being seen as a BJP strategy to fish in the troubled BJD waters.Shah is scheduled to meet party workers from Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur Cuttack and Jajpur at Salipur in Cuttack district in his first visit to the state this year..