04-19-2009, 04:01 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Win or lose, BJP has a future in Orissa</b>
pioneer.com
Navin Upadhyay | Bhadrak
The BJP is all set to be the number three party in Orissa, both in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Even the most optimistic BJP supporter and leader will not peg the number of winnable Assembly seats at more than five, but hopes to capture around 25-30 Assembly seats.
<b>The party is expected to win a major chunk of seats in western Orissa, which went to poll in the first phase on April 16. Over the years, the party has built its base among tribals in Western Orissa where it hopes to gain enough number of seats to deprive Naveen Patnaik an absolute majority.</b>
In comparison, the BJP has little at stake in the coastal belt where most seats were contested by its former ally, the BJD. But<b> irrespective of the number of seats it wins in this zone, stretching from Puri to Balasore, the fact remains that the BJP is bound to improve its vote percentage and establish itself as a party of the future</b>.
On a number of seats, even though it may eventually lose to either the BJD or the Congress, the BJP is in serious contest. For example, Braja Kishore Tripathy is the frontrunner in Puri, while in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Balasore, Jagjitsinghpur, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar, which will go to poll in the second phase on April 23, the BJP is either in a close contest or putting up a good fight..........<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
pioneer.com
Navin Upadhyay | Bhadrak
The BJP is all set to be the number three party in Orissa, both in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Even the most optimistic BJP supporter and leader will not peg the number of winnable Assembly seats at more than five, but hopes to capture around 25-30 Assembly seats.
<b>The party is expected to win a major chunk of seats in western Orissa, which went to poll in the first phase on April 16. Over the years, the party has built its base among tribals in Western Orissa where it hopes to gain enough number of seats to deprive Naveen Patnaik an absolute majority.</b>
In comparison, the BJP has little at stake in the coastal belt where most seats were contested by its former ally, the BJD. But<b> irrespective of the number of seats it wins in this zone, stretching from Puri to Balasore, the fact remains that the BJP is bound to improve its vote percentage and establish itself as a party of the future</b>.
On a number of seats, even though it may eventually lose to either the BJD or the Congress, the BJP is in serious contest. For example, Braja Kishore Tripathy is the frontrunner in Puri, while in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Balasore, Jagjitsinghpur, Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar, which will go to poll in the second phase on April 23, the BJP is either in a close contest or putting up a good fight..........<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->