BJD to strategy Odisha Congress to assist Murmu

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Following Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s assertion that he’ll work in the direction of getting each vote from Odisha for NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, the BJD has determined to strategy the 9 Congress MLAs and the lone CPM member of the Odisha Assembly to assist her.
The modalities of tips on how to go about that is but to be determined, although it’s clear that any transfer on this regard will probably be began solely after the return of the Chief Minister from his international tour on June 30.

Murmu is prone to go to Odisha for her marketing campaign throughout the first week of July within the midst of the funds session of the Assembly. She is prone to meet all of the MLAs throughout celebration strains and search their assist.
Sources stated that BJD will do the groundwork earlier than the marketing campaign of the presidential candidate in order that the method is accomplished easily. They stated, the ruling celebration is already on the job to use the fissures within the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) for the presidential polls and the duty has been assigned to some leaders. However, BJD leaders declined to remark something on the election because the Chief Minister is dealing with it instantly.

Meanwhile, president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee Sarat Pattanayak informed this paper that the difficulty will probably be mentioned within the CLP earlier than the funds session ranging from July 2. The celebration will talk about technique to hold all of the 9 votes of the Congress MLAs in favour of the united Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha, who filed his nomination papers on Monday.

Referring to the assertion of Chief Minister that the BJD celebration will attempt to get all votes from Odisha for Murmu, Pattanayak stated BJD will do its work. The Congress MLAs, nonetheless, will comply with the celebration stand and there’s no menace both from the BJD or BJP. Asked concerning the assertion of senior MLA Suresh Kumar Routray supporting the candidature of Murmu, Pattanayak stated that the difficulty is already sorted out and a robust message has been given to the MLAs on this regard.