Bhubaneswar: No discussions were held on alliance, said Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal after his arrival from New Delhi on Friday.
While speculations are rife about the alliance between the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the BJP, Samal today reiterated that his party will fight alone in both Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha.
Commenting on the meetings in Delhi, he said that discussions were held on how the party would form governments in the state and the centre.
Amid the seat-sharing talks between the BJD and the BJP, BJD leaders V K Pandian and Pranab Prakash Das, who had rushed to Delhi in a chartered flight on Thursday evening, returned to the Odisha capital on Friday afternoon but kept mum over the goings on.
The two leaders then headed for Sankha Bhawan, the headquarters of BJD here, and Pandian addressed a gathering of leaders but didn’t say anything about the possible electoral pact.
This visit, details of which are still unknown, assumed significance as a core team of the state BJP is having a marathon meetings with some central leaders of the saffron party at the South Avenue residence of Odisha election in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Pal Singh Tomar.
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