Jajpur, April 23 -- Coming down hard on the Centre, BJD supremo and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asserted that BJP will definitely lose the 2019 general elections.

While addressing poll meetings in Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur which will go to polls in the fourth phase, Patnaik questioned why despite having double engine government in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Punjab, the saffron party lost the Assembly polls in these States. He also alleged that after demonetisation, the poor in the country have become poorer while youths lost thier jobs.

"Since the BJP has not done anything for the welfare of farmers, it continues to lose elections. The party was boasting about its successful Gujarat model but it narrowly escaped def...