The Bharatiya Janata Party is not looking for allies in Odisha and will fight the 2019 Assembly elections alone, party president Amit Shah said on Thursday.
“We will have no alliance in Odisha,” Mr. Shah said at a press conference at the party office here on the second day of his three-day visit to Odisha.
Mr. Shah, who has set a target of 120 seats for his party in the 147-member Odisha Assembly, said a BJP wave was blowing across the country and it would come to Odisha very soon.
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The party has 10 legislators in the current Assembly.
Mr. Shah claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had allocated huge funds for the development of Odisha in the last three years.
Mr. Shah, who arrived in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday as part of his 110-day nationwide tour to strengthen the party organisation, is holding a series of meetings with leaders and workers to chalk out the party’s strategy in the State.
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He is scheduled to address booth-level workers at a conclave in Bhubaneswar on the last day of his visit on Friday.