Riding solely on Naveen Patnaik's popularity, the ruling BJD has been winning every bypoll held after the 2019 general elections. But, in Dhamnagar this did not prove to be sufficient.
Defeating the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the BJP was able to retain its Dhamnagar MLA seat in Odisha's Bhadrak district with its candidate Suryabanshi Suraj winning by a margin of 9,881 votes.Suraj garnered 80,351 votes while his .
The BJP riding on a sympathy wave for its candidate, the son of the partys deceased leader, and helped by a division of BJD votes on account of a rebel, coasted to a clear victory in the estuarine Dhamnagar constituency of Odisha on Sunday.
Patna/Lucknow/Hyderabad, Nov. 2 (PTI): Voting will be held on Thursday in bypolls to seven assembly seats in six states – a contest symbolic of the fierce turf war between the BJP and regional parties. While in Haryana former chief minister Bhajan Lal’s family is trying to hold on to its bastion of five decades, Bihar will see the first electoral test for the Nitish Kumar-led ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government, formed less than three months ago after the JD(U) parted ways with the BJP. The saffron party is seeking to retain Gola Gorakhnath seat in Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar in BJD-ruled Odisha, banking on sympathy votes as it has fielded the sons of sitting MLAs whose death necessitated the bypolls. The BJP and the ruling TRS had been campaigning aggressively in Manugoda in Telangana, where the Congress MLA had resigned and is fighting on the saffron party’s ticket. The Election Commission has made elaborate arrangements for polling, including the deployment of