With only a day left for the campaigning for the Bijepur by-election, star campaigners of three political parties, the BJD, the BJP and the Congress, conducted road shows and addressed public meetings at different places in the constituency on Friday.
BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik campaigned for his party candidate Rita Sahu by conducting road shows and addressing a huge public meeting in Gaisilet block.
“I have come to your place. I will continue to work for development of Bijepur. Bless me and give me another chance to serve you,” Patnaik urged voters.
Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Pratap Chandra Sarangi and BJP State president Basanta Panda also held roads shows urging voters to vote for BJP candidate Sanat Gadtia.
Criticising the BJD, Pradhan asked Rajya Sabha member Prasanna Acharya to clarify why he had urged Naveen Patnaik to contest from Bijepur in the last general elections and why Patnaik resigned from the seat thereby burdening the people here with a by-poll.
To this, Acharya said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi had won two MP seats in the 2014 elections. Can Pradhan say that the PM betrayed people of the Parliamentary constituency he quit in 2014?”
Congress MLAs Narasingha Mishra and Tara Prasad Bahinipati and other senior party leaders addressed meetings at different places to woe voters in favour of party candidate Dillip Panda.
