In Odisha, BJP will contest the upcoming 2024 elections alone and will not make any alliance or agreement with any other political party.
State party in-charge Sunil Bansal gave this information on Saturday.
He addressed party officials in Bhubaneswar. During this, he said that there will be no alliance with any party in the 2024 elections in Odisha.
Bansal said, ‘BJP will field its candidates on all 147 assembly seats and 21 parliamentary seats in Odisha. Our party has set a target of getting 50 percent vote share.
State opposition leader Jayanarayan Mishra and Bhubaneswar MP Aparjita Sarangi have also given statements on this matter.
He said that some people with vested interests are spreading rumors about a possible alliance between BJD and BJP.
But, BJP will contest the elections alone and will not form any alliance with any party. Mishra said that there will be a direct contest between BJP and BJD in the 2024 elections as Congress is nowhere to be seen in the race.
Why was there so much speculation about BJP-BJD alliance?
In fact, in August this year, BJD had supported BJP on the opposition’s no-confidence motion in Parliament.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s party also did not object to the Delhi Service Bill which said that the Center will have control over actions like suspension and inquiry of officials of the national capital Delhi.
It was introduced in Parliament amid uproar in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the Manipur violence. In August, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also met on the sidelines of official programs.
After this, speculations about a possible alliance between the two parties intensified. It is known that between 2000 and 2009, these two parties were in alliance.