The BJP, which despite putting in all efforts could not win Odisha Assembly elections held simultaneously with the 2019 general elections, now seems to have chosen a risky truce with its arch rival BJD.
The party has mysteriously silenced all its guns that blazed full-throated before the polls and extended an olive branch to the BJD president and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, perhaps with a calculation that since the 73-year-old chief minister has not chosen any successor, it would not be a tough task to unseat the BJD in the 2024 elections.