Naveen’s guarantees in Odisha more impactful than that of Modi: BJD

Bhubaneswar: Criticising the BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, senior BJD chief and former Odisha minister Padmanabha Behera mentioned Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s ensures are extra impactful within the state than that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Earlier within the day, PM Modi launched the BJP’s Lok Sabha ballot manifesto, outlining his imaginative and prescient for ‘Viksit Bharat’ as he exhorted individuals to provide one other mandate to his occasion to form India’s ‘future’ for the subsequent 1,000 years.

Describing the party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ as a doc of his assure, Modi highlighted the achievements of 10 years of his authorities on the Centre and mentioned the BJP has delivered on each promise it made thus far.

“Right here, solely Naveen’s ensures will work and no different ensures will work in Odisha. The BJD will win extra seats than the final meeting elections,” Behera advised media individuals on Sunday.

The Lok Sabha and meeting polls are held concurrently in Odisha.

Of the 21 Lok Sabha seats within the state, the BJD received 12, the BJP acquired eight and the Congress secured one within the 2019 elections.

The BJD received 113 meeting seats, the BJP bagged 23, the Congress acquired 9, and the CPI (M) and Unbiased secured one every within the final state polls.

The BJD authorities has by no means tolerated corruption and took sturdy measures towards wrongdoers, Behera mentioned, including that even state vigilance is taking motion towards corrupt individuals day-after-day.

Folks help the BJD and the chief minister for his welfare schemes, he mentioned.

“Dialogue is now occurring. The BJD will give you its election manifesto by which the CM will put forth his guarantees,” the BJD chief mentioned.

Equally, senior Congress chief and occasion’s manifesto committee chairman Panchanan Kanungo mentioned individuals are ‘not able to hearken to Modi’s ensures because the Prime Minister has did not fulfil the guarantees he has made earlier than the general public’.

“Ten years in the past, the individuals have been able to hearken to him (PM) and his guarantees. However, now, they won’t consider him. He can not make individuals idiot this time,” Kanungo mentioned.

BJP state president Manmohan Samal termed the occasion’s ballot manifesto as a roadmap to make India a developed nation by 2047.