While BJP improves vote share from 2019, Cong decimated; Dipali Das gains from sympathy wave over father and sitting MLA's killing, BJD poll machinery and campaigning by CM Naveen Patnaik.
"This is a victory of the people of Jharsuguda, of those who loved my father, of the Chief Minister, of the people and BJD and of everyone associated with my father. This is a victory of Naba Das..," said Dipali Das. Jharsuguda By-Election Result 2023: Slain BJD Minister Naba Das Daughter Dipali Das Wins Odisha Bypoll by Over 48,000 Votes.
The polling ended peacefully without any major untoward incident even as 1,814 police personnel, including Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), were deployed at 144 of the total 253 booths in the constituency.
As Opposition parties are likely to make a major poll issue out of Naba Kisore Das’s murder and the police’s failure to ascertain the motive behind it, the BJD says it’s confident of a win.