Bhubaneswar, March 10 -- Suspense continued over an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha and assembly polls, amid speculation that seat-sharing talks may have hit some last-minute hurdles. As the BJP state unit maintained its posture of going solo in the polls, a short clip of BJD chief Naveen Patnaik terming "rumours and lies" as the worst thing in politics added to the confusion.
On Friday evening, state BJP president Manmohan Samal following his return from Delhi said there was no discussion with party's central leadership about the alliance. "We had gone to Delhi to hold discussions with the central leaders on our preparations for the elections to Lok ...