Bhubaneswar, Feb. 8: The BJD and the BJP today continued to trade charges, accusing each other of trying to create problems during Narendra Modi's visit to Paradip, where the Prime Minister dedicated the Rs 35,000-crore oil refinery to the nation yesterday.

The BJP accused a minister and three BJD MLAs of indulging in violence to prevent its workers and leaders from taking part in the function.

"The BJD wanted to appropriate all the credit for the refinery," said BJP spokesperson Sajjan Sharma.

The BJD, on the other hand, said the BJP charges exposed its "sick" mindset.

Sharma accused MLAs Debashish Samantray, Pramod Mallick and Pravat Biswal of actively instigating their supporters to stop BJP workers from reaching the venue. He alleged that energy minister Pranab Prakash Das had gone to the extent of tearing the passes of BJP supporters. "Police remained a mute spectator," Sharma said.

He said Cuttack-Barbati MLA Debashish Samantray had also blocked the roads leading to the venue.

"They tried their best to stop senior BJP leaders such as Rudra Narayan Pani, Rama Chandra Panda and Pratap Sarangi from reaching the place. However, they could not succeed in their attempt."

On the alleged attack on the BJD's Niali MLA Pramod Mallick by BJP supporters, Sharma said he was actually roughed up by some of his own party members opposed to him.

However, BJD leaders sharply reacted to these charges. "They are making all sorts of allegations to take political mileage. All are aware that at the gathering, about 90 per cent of workers were from the BJD. This exposed the BJP, which has no support base in coastal Odisha. This is why they acted in the way they did," said BJD MLA Pravat Biswal.

BJD spokesperson P.K. Deb said the allegations were baseless and ridiculous.

"We did our best to make the Prime Minister's visit a success. Their allegations reveal their sick mindset," he said.

In another development, the police today arrested seven BJD supporters on charges of ransacking Tirtol police station on Sunday. The police also filed a case against Mallick, along with 35 BJD supporters, on the same charges.

"We have arrested seven BJD supporters on charge of ransacking the police station. All of them were remanded in jail custody," said officer in charge of Tirtol police station A. Dalua.

Mallick had suffered injuries when some BJP supporters had allegedly attacked him at Balipatana Square on the Cuttack-Paradip State Highway within Tirtol police limits on Sunday. Mallick he was on his way to Paradip. The attackers also damaged the car of the Niali legislator, who later lodged a police complaint alleging that BJP supporters had assaulted him. Following this, BJD supporters allegedly ransacked the Tirtol police station.

In yet another development, the BJP today announced that the Prime Minister would visit the state on February 21 to address a farmers' convention in Bargarh, the place where the Congress and the BJD had organised similar programmes.