The Orissa Assembly would be dissolved on February 6 to pave way for early elections in the state, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said tonight. Hours earlier, the state Cabinet also announced a number of sops by exempting sales tax on several items.Emerging from a Cabinet meeting, Patnaik said a three-day session of the Assembly was being convened from February 3 to pass the vote-on-account.The Council of Ministers would meet again after the brief Assembly session to recommend House dissolution to the Governor, he said.The BJD-BJP coalition had earlier decided to go for Assembly polls exactly a year ahead of schedule simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls. Meanwhile, the CM ruled out any change in seat adjustments with the BJP for Lok Sabha polls. But there may be some minor adjustments or changes in the mutually allotted Assembly seats, he said.Earlier on his one-day tour of Athmallik constituency, Patnaik inaugurated a long-pending irrigation project. He also laid the foundation stone of Kushakila minor irrigation project at Kosala. At a public meeting here, the CM said his government is working to make every village a model village in the state. Patnaik said that about 500 additional villages would be electrified by next March and there would be roads would be constructed at a cost of Rs 850 crore by next June.
