BHUBANESWAR, March 9 -- In the event of a tie-up between BJP and BJD, what could be Congress' fate when the trio goes to the hustings in 2024? Will the party, which has been in the third position in the Assembly with just 9 MLAs and its organisation getting weaker and weaker since 2000 in the State, make a turnaround or get further marginalised?

After a possible electoral understanding between the ruling BJD and principal Opposition BJP in Odisha, the two parties, which have been targeting each other on various sensitive issues, will bury their hatchet and keep mum over each other's follies and foibles. United, the BJP-BJD front would be stronger and Congress might sink into insignificance when it comes to facing them during the poll campa...