While BJD facilitating a Rajya Sabha win for Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw can be explained away by the state ruling party as a way of taking care of Odisha’s interests, it is getting harder for BJD and BJP to dispel perceptions of an informal alliance. BJP’s Mission 400 and Naveen Patnaik’s desire for unfettered power in Odisha are coalescing seamlessly as the polls near with Congress in no position to seize the opposition space