Bhubaneswar, Feb. 12 -- A host of central BJP leaders will be visiting Odisha this month to strengthen and step up the party's activities in the run-up to the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

BJP Odisha unit President Manmohan Samal told newsmen here on Monday that former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will arrive here on Tuesday to review the preparations for the Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur Parliamentary segments.

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will visit the state on February 15 to review the party's preparations for the 2024 elections in the Puri Parliamentary constituency. He will visit Puri Jagannath temple for darshan.

Besides Chouhan, and Gadkari, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Sing...