"The decision to get Pandian to join BJD on Kartik Purnima is well planned. It’s also an attempt to showcase his love for Odisha culture," says a senior BJD leader.
Patnaik govt’s 4,000 cr-‘Ama Odisha, Nabin Odisha’ seems to be a repackaging of ‘Ama Gaon, Ama Bikash’, with BJD set to use the new scheme to neutralise ‘anti-incumbency’ in 2024 Assembly and Lok Sabha polls
While BJP improves vote share from 2019, Cong decimated; Dipali Das gains from sympathy wave over father and sitting MLA's killing, BJD poll machinery and campaigning by CM Naveen Patnaik.