BHUBANESWAR/ANGUL/ROURKELA, April 2 : Ruling out any post-poll alliance with the BJD, BJP leader Mr LK Advani said that the regional party owed its decade-long survival to the BJP and yet it had betrayed the party and people of Orissa.

Dismissing the BJD charge that it had withdrawn from the alliance due to the “hidden communal agenda” pursued by the BJP, Mr Advani said that at no point of time during the 11 years and the series of seat-sharing talks had the BJD raised this issue.

"In fact he (Mr Naveen Patnaik) seemed to be predetermined to break the alliance and was only talking of five LS seats and 35 Assembly seats for the BJP knowing fully well that we will not accept it. We had seven sitting MPs and he was offering us five LS tickets," said Mr Advani at a Press conference here today.

The BJP leader and Prime Ministerial candidate went on to note that Mr Patnaik did not even speak to him. When some of our people requested him to talk to me, he refused, revealed Mr Advani, implicitly referring to the act of betrayal leading to a lack of moral courage to face or talk to him.

"No regional party in Orissa has survived beyond three to four years, the BJD did continue because it was wedded to a national party like the BJP," he pointed out.

The BJD will pay dearly for its miscalculation, misadventure arising out an exaggerated sense of its own strength, he said.

He appealed to voters to cast their vote and show their disapproval for the BJD’S great betrayal and also shatter the Congress party’s dreams in the state and at the Centre.

Addressing election meetings at Kuanrmunda and Kishorenagar Mr Advani called upon people to teach the BJD a lesson.

Giving tips on all inclusive development the PM candidate said: “No CM or PM or administrator can bring in change of development unless and until there is a good rapport between ruler and the ruled. As long as the raja and praja do not shake a hand the real development can never come because in a country like India the problems are big and complex”.

Earlier, Mr Juel Oram, MP who presided over the meeting alleged that the BJD, had become ‘PJD’ (obviously referring to Mr Pyari Mohan Mohapatra) and it has allotted the Sundergarh LS seat to the Left parties.

Mr Dilip Ray continuing to spew venom against Mr Patnaik said that he never visited Kalinganagar after his police had gunned down 14 tribals. He has displaced over thousand of tribals from Niyamgiri.

The BJP knows how to convert a crisis into an opportunity and grow. It has done many times in the past and recently it returned to power in Karnataka after the partner split the alliance, Mr Advani said.

BJP leaders Mr BB Harichandan, MP Rudra Narayan Pany and Dharmendra Pradhan, addressed the gathering at Kishorenagar.