Jharsuguda by-poll: BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday lambasted Bharatiya Janta occasion after winning Jharsuguda by-poll on Saturday. He made a veiled assault on the BJP, which misplaced the Karnataka Assembly ballot saying it’s good governance and never a ‘double engine’ authorities that may assist a celebration win election.
Refraining from naming any occasion, Patnaik mentioned, “Single engine or double engine does not matter. From people’s point of view, governance is important. Good governance and pro-people governance always win.”
BJP had made ‘double engine’ (BJP authorities at the state and the Centre) its slogan in Karnataka. Patnaik’s veiled criticism of the ‘double engine’ authorities is taken into account politically vital because the opposition BJP has for lengthy lured the individuals of Odisha with accelerated growth in the event that they voted the occasion to energy within the state.
Patnaik met PM Modi 2 days in the past
His remark got here two days after his assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. After the assembly, he reaffirmed his occasion’s coverage to go it alone and keep equidistance each from BJP and the Congress, at least earlier than the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly ballot in 2024.
The assembly with the prime minister within the nationwide capital befell barely 48 hours after Patnaik’s assembly along with his previous buddy Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, who visited him.
Patnaik, when requested had mentioned there is no such thing as a risk of a Third Front so far as he was involved and that BJD will contest the elections subsequent 12 months with none nationwide ambition.
BJD wins Jharsuguda
On Saturday BJD candidate, 26-year-old Dipali Das trounced rival BJP candidate Tankadhar Tripathy by a margin of over 48,000 votes in Jharsuguda, the place the by-poll was held after her father Naba Kishore Das, who was a minister within the Naveen Patnaik cupboard, was killed.
Reacting to Pataik’s assertion, the president of BJP in Odisha Manmohan Samal mentioned, “The chief minister is now speaking about good governance within the state. Everybody is aware of how the federal government features in Odisha.
“He (Patnaik) is also speaking of ‘double engine’ as he is aware that BJP will form the government next time,” he claimed.
(With PTI enter)
