BHUBANESWAR, March 25 -- It is now clear that there will be no BJP-BJD alliance ahead of the 2024 simultaneous elections in Odisha with both parties announcing that they would go solo, of course after a lingering suspense over the issue for nearly three weeks since PM Narendra Modi's Chandikhol rally on March 5.
Though seat-sharing remained a bone of contention for both the parties that led to the failure of the talks for a formal return of BJD to the NDA fold and reunion of the BJD and BJP at the State level, the broader issue is how the development is going to affect the Modi-Naveen chemistry or the BJD's stand on the Centre ahead.
It is no secret that BJD supremo and CM Naveen Patnaik has had a cordial relation with the Centre since 20...