India, March 2 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Odisha state president Manmohan Samal on Friday ruled out speculations over a possible alliance with the state's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

Samal, who was in Delhi to discuss with the central leadership about the candidates for the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 147 assembly seats in the state, said the BJP will not enter into any alliance with the BJD and will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections alone.

"We will fight independently and try to form the government on our own," said Samal.

The two parties, who were alliance partners till 2009, called off their partnership just before the Assembly polls that year over the 2008 Ka...