The Congress on Tuesday described the BJP and the BJD as two sides of a coin, saying while the BJP-led Central Government has burdened people with hike in prices of essential commodities, the State’s BJD Government is imposing an escalating loan burden.
At public meeting in Baripada on the second day of his Jan Sampark Yatra, PCC president Sarat Pattanayak said both the parties have played with emotion of people rather than responding to their day-to-day problems.
He said that while unemployment, farmer suicide and atrocities against women are rising in Odisha, the Modi Government is busy selling public sector undertaking one after another to industrialist friends.
“While the BJD and the BJP are fighting with each other in Bhubaneswar, they are hugging each other in Delhi,” Pattanayak said.
He said the Congress is the only alternative which has the strength to fight both BJP and BJP. He appealed to all leaders and workers who have left the party to come back and strengthen the party.