In the run-up to the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state, BJP president Amit Shah, while appealing public to vote for the BJP in the impending elections, likened the Naveen Patnaik government to a "burnt transformer" and the Narendra Modi government to a "high capacity electricity production unit.""The electricity cannot reach your home from the High tension line directly, a transformer has to be put in place. Narendra Modi government in Delhi is like a big electricity producing unit which sends a lot of development for Odisha, a huge amount of money, but the Odisha government is like a burnt transformer," Shah said at a rally here on Monday. "The electricity cannot reach your home with the burnt transformer. We have to throw the burnt transformer, not replace it."The BJP president claimed that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik cannot deliver his speeches in Odiya without holding a note in his hand."The state was founded on the basis of language, 19 years have passed and Odisha ...
