{"id":16049,"date":"2023-12-14T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/bjp-confident-of-winning-over-2-3rd-lok-sabha-seats-in-odisha-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:48:24","slug":"bjp-confident-of-winning-over-2-3rd-lok-sabha-seats-in-odisha-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/bjp-confident-of-winning-over-2-3rd-lok-sabha-seats-in-odisha-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP confident of winning over 2\/3rd LoK Sabha seats in Odisha &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win at least 15 Lok Sabha (LS) seats out of the total 21 in Odisha in the 2024 Parliamentary elections, asserted Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today.<\/p>\n<p>Pradhan made this assertion during an interview to a New-Delhi based Hindi news channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that the BJP will secure more than 45 per cent votes in Odisha in 2024 Parliamentary elections. The party will win at least 15 Lok Sabha seats in the state,\u201d said Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP had won eight LS seats in Odisha in the last Parliamentary elections in 2019. The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the state bagged 12 LS seats while Congress party secured victory in one seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BJP had secured 22 per cent votes in the 2014 Parliamentary elections in Odisha and won one LS seat. The party\u2019s voting percentage went up to 38 per cent in the state in 2019 elections and it secured victory in eight LS seats. The ruling BJD got 42 per cent votes and it candidates came victorious in 12 LS seats. The regional party got only 4 per cent more votes than BJP in 2019,\u201d claimed Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a query on the cordial relation between BJP and BJD in Odisha, the Union Education Minister further said, \u201cWe have a political rivalry with BJD in Odisha. But, we do not believe in using harsh and objectionable languages towards our political opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Union Minister claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very much popular in Odisha. \u201cThe Prime Minister\u2019s approval rating has been hovering around 80 per cent in the state. The BJP\u2019s voting percentage in Parliamentary elections in Odisha has doubled within 2014 and 2019. So, we are confident of securing at least 45 per cent votes in Odisha in 2024 elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Union Minister\u2019s assertion, BJP Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal said, \u201cWe will win over 15 LS seats in the state and also secure majority in the Assembly election. The BJP will form government in Odisha by defeating the BJD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Congress party in Odisha said the Union Minister\u2019s assertion of winning 15 LS seats in the state is nothing but a \u2018daydream\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BJP\u2019s recent victory in the Assembly elections in three states might have prompted the Union Minister to make this assertion. But, his assertion will not come true in Odisha. The Congress party will do well in the 2024 elections and form government in the state,\u201d said senior Congress leader Jaydev Jena.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win at least 15 Lok Sabha (LS) seats out of the total 21 in Odisha in the 2024 Parliamentary elections, asserted Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today. Pradhan made this assertion during an interview to a New-Delhi based Hindi news channel. \u201cI am confident that the BJP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16050,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}