BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday ridiculed the BJP leaders' calls to bring to power a "double engine" in the state and said the saffron party's "main engine" (Narendra Modi) in Delhi will be derailed after the results of the 2019 polls are announced.
Patnaik asked the people of the state to analyse why BJP faced the poll debacle in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Chhattisgarh despite the presence of "double engine" in them.
The chief minister, who is seeking re-election for the fifth straight time, was referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to the people of Odisha to ensure that a "double engine" - a government of BJP in Delhi and in Odisha is voted to power for the speedy development of the state.
Almost all the visiting BJP leaders who visited the state for the high voltage campaigning spoke about the "double engine."