Twitter war in BJD over BJP

BJD MP Tathagata Satpathy has alleged that the BJP was trying to split his party with the help of another MP.
Though Satpathy did not name the other party MP in his tweets, Baijayant Jay Panda responded on the social networking site with an attack on Satpathy.
"BJP hard at work to divide @bjd_odisha in Parliament, maybe even in assembly. They want AIADMK type split...They want to take away @bjd_odisha's party name & symbol. Rumors afloat that only one MP will swing this deal for them. Ha!" Satpathy had said in a series of tweets.
When a Twitter user asked him to respond, Panda tweeted "He speaks w/ expertise, having once been suspended from BJD & joined another party. I don't have such experience, so will defer to his..."

Satpathy, son of former Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy, had been suspended in 2000 from BJD and rejoined the party in 2004.
BJP had made inroads in the recently held Odisha local body elections by winning many seats which has unnerved the ruling party in Odisha.

BJP which was almost wiped out of Odisha in 2009 elections after parting ways with the BJD, however regained some lost ground. It won over 300 of 851 panchayat seats in Odisha to finish second behind the BJD this time.
Satpathy alleged that if the BJD does split, the BJP would push for early elections. Odisha's assembly election is scheduled in 2019, coinciding with the Lok Sabha polls.

"If split happens, no matter how small, BJP will try for early elections in Orissa with Raj, Guj, MP. Will EC play along?" Satpathy tweeted on March 26.
BJP national convention is scheduled on April 15-16 in Bhubaneswar.