While the BJD is nursing its wounds from its shock defeat at Dhamnagar, the BJP is looking to avenge Padampur bypoll loss as the Jharsuguda bypoll is considered a precursor to the 2024 Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.
Naba Kisore Das, the health minister of Odisha, was critically injured after being shot at by an assistant sub-inspector in Jharsuguda district earlier today.