No time for either the BJP or BJD to look back as the counting of votes for 2024 just underway. While the BJP camp is agog to win a new fortress on the other side the BJD under Naveen Patnaik waits with its palpitations rising high and high every second to protect its 24 year old bastion.

Going by the exit polls the result can tilt either way as a binary pattern of voting has reportedly taken place in Odisha.  

Barely  hours to go for the 2024 general election results in Odisha, fingers remain crossed in all the parties and mainly so in the Biju Janata Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the two major contenders who were trying hard to outflank each other as both the polling for the Assembly and the Lok Sabha were held simultaneously.

On one side was the unprecedented battery of the BJP leaders almost pounding non-stop on the Naveen led BJD for last month including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting Odisha for a record four times.

The exit polls have further increased the palpitations on both sides as BJP is on the lookout for wresting as much Lok Sabha seats from Odisha and on the other side as well seriously putting its entire force for a ‘Double Engine’ government in Odisha by unseating the 24 years rule by Naveen Patnaik.

In this one(Naveen) vs the entire BJP showdown Patnaik virtually seems pushed to the walls during the campaigns against the relentless assaults from the saffron camp.

In this political tug-of-war for Modi it  was being seen as a quest to conquer Odisha and on the other it was a question of survival for Naveen led BJP to hold back its reign for political survival.

Countdown has already started as the process of counting of votes has started almost.