Vangmayi Parakala, a journalist working in The Hindu and the daughter of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, called out Shekhar Gupta's claims with a note.
Throughout its election campaign in the state, BJD had maintained that it will retain its 2014 clean sweep of Lok Sabha seats in the state and will play a decisive role in forming the next government at the centre.
Shashi Tharoor shared on Twitter the question he had asked the government in the Lok Sabha on reports that it was planning to end the subsidy on Kerosene.