Poll card Odisha: BJP aims to challenge Naveen Patnaik’s iron grip
Odisha this time as there was a buzz before polls that former allies and top parties of the state — Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the BJP — may come together but now they are ghting to outscore each other.
Elections for 21 Lok Sabha and 147 assembly seats of Odisha will be held simultaneously over four phases starting from May 13.
ET takes a look at factors playing out in the state: In 2019, BJP emerged as the main challenger to BJD and won eight Lok Sabha seats. However, in the assembly polls, it was Naveen Patnaik all the way, showing that Odiyas have different preferences for different polls. In between these two players, Congress is trying hard to make space for itself.
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Politically, Odisha can be broadly divided into two regions — Coastal Odisha and Western Odisha. Besides these two, there are two sub-regions of tribal population in the northern and southern part of the state.
Coastal Odisha has been a pocket borough of BJD. Out of the 147 assembly seats, around 90 are in the coastal region comprising Lok Sabha segments – Berhampur,
