After seven stages of voting in the Lok Sabha Elections, the results will be declared on May 23 and India will know whether Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forms the government on its own or with the help of regional allies or whether the Congress can pull off a surprise. Odisha is expected to play a crucial role, with Naveen Patnaik’s BJD (Biju Janata Dal) expected to support Modi. Odisha was one of the four states that saw the Lok Sabha Elections and the State Assembly Elections being held simultaneously in first four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29. Naveen Patnaik, the current chief minister of Odisha, is fighting from the Bijepur and Hinjili constituency. While Odisha has 21 seats in the Lok Sabha Polls, the Assembly has 147 seats. In the 2014 Odisha Assembly Elections, the BJD won 117 out of 147 seats while the BJP secured just 10 seats with the Congress winning 16. In the Lok Sabha Elections in 2014, the BJD won 20 out of the 21 seats with the BJP winning just one seat from Sundargarh.
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