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.
Broken trees, mobile towers, wretched electric poles and debris lay scattered on roads of Puri and Bhubaneswar as a category 4 cyclone named "Fani" ripped through the Odisha coast in the early hours of 3rd May.
PM Modi has stated that Mamata Banerjee is playing politics over Cyclone Fani. The West Bengal CM has refused to talk on the phone or hold a review meeting.
As PM Modi meets Naveen Patnaik today, reports state that the West Bengal government have declined PMO's request for a review meeting on Cyclone Fani stating that the state officials are busy in election duty. Earlier, Mamata Banerjee had avoided PM's phone call over the same.