After Gandhi and Patnaik's tour of the KBK region, BJP's star campaigners like party president Rajnath Singh and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi would hit the campaign trail on April 2 and 4 to woo tribal people and the poor.
The BJP has reasons to be optimistic as all its six MLAs in 2009 elections were from the south-western region.
This apart, BJP had in the past during BJD-BJP coalition era in 2000 and 2004 general elections, had won Bolangir, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh from the south-western region of the state.
