No party to get majority in Odisha: Pyarimohan Mohapatra

--Pyarimohan predicts BJD to get 60 to 65 seats   

Photo by Arabinda Mohapatra

BHUBANESWAR: Following the end of the first and second phase polls, calculation for winnability of seats has been started by the political analysts and senior leaders of different political parties in the State.

Odisha Jan Morcha (OJM) president and a soothsayer of politics Pyarimohan Mohapatra, who had predicted a vast majority for the BJD to form Government in 2009 and sure win for the BJD in Umerkote by-election, claimed that no party in the State could get majority to form Government.

Mohapatra said the BJD would get hardly 60 to 65 seats, while main opposition Congress would get only 35 to 40 seats in the recently ended General Election. He also predicted that the national party BJP would get only 25 to 30 seats, while the others will get rest of the seats in the polls.

“BJD’s claim to get vast majority cannot see the light of the day. The State will see a different equation while formation of the Government,” said Mohapatra.

The State BJP, which is aspiring for an overwhelming result in the elections, pooh poohed the claim of the BJD to form the Government with a vast majority. While contacted BJP’s former president Suresh Pujari said they will surprise their opponents. “Just wait, let the result come. Naveen Patnaik will be more surprised after getting the election result,” said Pujari.

The Congress heavyweights like PCC State president Jayadev Jena and party’s campaign committee chief Srikant Jena claimed that they have done very good job in the elections and have received overwhelming support from the people.

On the other hand, former PCC president Niranjan Patnaik said the people were in the favour of a positive change in the State, but the oppositions like the Congress and the BJP could not come up with a great force to steal the show which was expected before.

Though the BJD has been claiming that they would form the Government, the recent prediction of a hung Assembly may create tension for the party. Meanwhile, party vice-president Kalpataru Das refused to buy the hung Assembly story.