05-22-2009, 04:28 PM
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Orissa: BJP loses its support base in tribal areas to BJD</b>
Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party lost its core support base in the tribal areas to the Biju Janata Dal. The Rs 2-a-kg rice did the magic for the regional party.
The Saffron party had 32 members in the 13th Assembly and 11 of them were tribals.
The BJP could retain only one seat in the communally sensitive Kandhamal district. Karendra Majhi, a protege of slain Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, is the only successful MLA out of the 11.
The BJP had five MLAs from the tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district having 10 Assembly seats. It came a cropper in the district. Former minister Chitanya Prasad Majhi was the only MLA from the district. The BJD won eight seats while the other two went to the Congress.
Similar is the situation in Keonjhar district. The party had two tribal MLAs from Keonjhar and Patna. It lost both the seats to the BJD.
In the undivided Koraput district, the BJP had two MLAs from Umerkote and Chitrakonda. Whle BJD won the Umerkote seat, Chitrakonda went to the Congress.
The BJP had three MLAs from Kalahandi including Dhaneswar Majhi. Though a tribal, he was elected from Keisinga, a general seat, Majhi hopped to the BJD just before the election as the seat was dissolved. The two other members from the district who lost the election were former minister Pradipta Naik (Bhawanipatna- SC) and Himansu Meher (Juangarh).
There were two tribal legislators from the undivided Samalpur district, one from Laikera and the other from Kuchinda. Laikera-ST constituency was abolished after delimitation. The BJP lost the Kuchinda seat.
In Sundargarh district, the BJP compensated the loss of the Sundargarh seat by winning the Bonai.
Kandhamal district is the only exception for the Saffron party where it gained one seat G.Udaygiri. BJP candidate Manoj Pradhan created a record by winning the seat from behind the bars.
Five BJP legislators, four of them tribals, left the party just before the election apprehending that they will not get renomination. While constituencies of three former MLAs were abolished after delimitation, the other two seats were dereserved.
The BJPâs loss is the BJDâs gain. Most of the seats the Saffron party lost went to its former ally.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.a...FeEOBkuKw=&SEO=
Orissa: BJP loses its support base in tribal areas to BJD</b>
Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party lost its core support base in the tribal areas to the Biju Janata Dal. The Rs 2-a-kg rice did the magic for the regional party.
The Saffron party had 32 members in the 13th Assembly and 11 of them were tribals.
The BJP could retain only one seat in the communally sensitive Kandhamal district. Karendra Majhi, a protege of slain Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, is the only successful MLA out of the 11.
The BJP had five MLAs from the tribal-dominated Mayurbhanj district having 10 Assembly seats. It came a cropper in the district. Former minister Chitanya Prasad Majhi was the only MLA from the district. The BJD won eight seats while the other two went to the Congress.
Similar is the situation in Keonjhar district. The party had two tribal MLAs from Keonjhar and Patna. It lost both the seats to the BJD.
In the undivided Koraput district, the BJP had two MLAs from Umerkote and Chitrakonda. Whle BJD won the Umerkote seat, Chitrakonda went to the Congress.
The BJP had three MLAs from Kalahandi including Dhaneswar Majhi. Though a tribal, he was elected from Keisinga, a general seat, Majhi hopped to the BJD just before the election as the seat was dissolved. The two other members from the district who lost the election were former minister Pradipta Naik (Bhawanipatna- SC) and Himansu Meher (Juangarh).
There were two tribal legislators from the undivided Samalpur district, one from Laikera and the other from Kuchinda. Laikera-ST constituency was abolished after delimitation. The BJP lost the Kuchinda seat.
In Sundargarh district, the BJP compensated the loss of the Sundargarh seat by winning the Bonai.
Kandhamal district is the only exception for the Saffron party where it gained one seat G.Udaygiri. BJP candidate Manoj Pradhan created a record by winning the seat from behind the bars.
Five BJP legislators, four of them tribals, left the party just before the election apprehending that they will not get renomination. While constituencies of three former MLAs were abolished after delimitation, the other two seats were dereserved.
The BJPâs loss is the BJDâs gain. Most of the seats the Saffron party lost went to its former ally.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.a...FeEOBkuKw=&SEO=