Bhubaneswar: Uncertainty continued over the fate of the decade-old BJD-BJP alliance in Orissa.
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which a regional party in Orissa, on Saturday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to agree for a reduced number of seats in the ensuing polls in the state if it sincerely wanted L K Advani to become the prime minister.
“BJP should realise the ground reality if it sincerely wants to make L K Advani the prime minister and Naveen Patnaik the chief minister of Orissa," BJD Spokesman and Secretary General Damodar Rout said in Bhubaneswar.
Instead of sticking to the old seat sharing formula, the BJP should ensure that more candidates of the alliance emerged victorious, both in the Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections, to keep the Congress away from power both at Delhi and in Orissa, he added.
In a last ditch bid to save the alliance, which is facing rough weather over the seat sharing ratio, BJP central leadership had despatched Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra to hold discussion with the state party leaders.
Mitra, as a special emissary of BJP stalwart L K Advani, held at least two rounds of talks with his partymen ever since his arrival in Bhubaneswar on Friday night.
The BJP's central leadership was not forcing the state leaders to accept its decision as was being reported in the media, Mitra told newsmen while expressing optimism over the continuance of the alliance.
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