The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) laying the road map for strengthening the party organisation over the next few months has sparked a buzz of early polls in the State. The election to the 147-member Assembly is due before June next year.
With the BJD, which is seeking a sixth consecutive term, organising meetings of district party units and orientation programmes on poll preparedness for 30,000 party workers, the two main Opposition parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, have also entered poll mode.
At a recent meeting of the BJD’s district observers at Naveen Niwas, the CM’s residence, the party resolved to take out a padayatra in all zilla parishads from October 2. A senior BJD leader said village-level leaders have been asked to identify beneficiaries left out of government schemes.
