Continuing his campaign for the phase two polls in Odisha’s Nayagarh district, and reiterating his attacks on the Centre as usual, chief minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik on Saturday got relentless and for the first time questioned the NDA to clarify was the chief ministerial face of the BJP in Odisha.
In fact, Patnaik’s counter was stated to be a rebuttal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s often-repeated coinage of “double engine” government both at the Centre and in Odisha. Patnaik made it a first time barbing at the Prime Minister and for the BJP leaders in the state asking about the face that was leading the national party in the elections. If it is a double engine system to rule in Odisha, then the people of Odisha must know, who is the driver of the engine, Patnaik wondered adding that BJP must name the chief ministerial face and also say from where he or she is fighting the election.
It was in a way a multi-pronged weapon Patnaik has used to make it sound awkward for both the state level leaders and in particular at the Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan who is somehow rumoured to be the blue eyed boy of BJP central leaders to wear the captain’s hat in the case of BJP making it to the power in Odisha.
