Again, not quite like the notoriously reserved CM who, one is told, believes in revenge being best served cold.The 2019 election campaign is challenging the four-time chief minister in ways no one had thought it would. It is Patnaik, and him alone, that the party’s campaign is centred on. The wife of a BJD minister told ET that she loved the suspense and craziness of fighting an election. “That depends on her husband, I suppose,” she says.BJP expects Odisha to deliver a Tripura; it is fighting the elections without projecting a chief minister. A Rajya Sabha member from Bihar, Pradhan has been leading an unrelenting, aggressive BJP campaign.

Source: Economic Times April 20, 2019 03:22 UTC