By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: As marketing campaign for Dhamnagar bypoll has intensified, difficulties appear to be mounting for the ruling BJD regardless that greater than two dozen ministers, MLAs and senior leaders are tenting within the constituency to steer the occasion candidate to victory.
The BJD has taken a public stand that its candidate will win by an amazing margin of over 30,000 votes based mostly on calculations from panchayat and concrete native physique elections held earlier this 12 months. However, confidence is missing among the many leaders and employees who’re tenting within the constituency.
There are a number of causes for which the end result is probably not much like different bypolls by which the BJD candidates all the time prevailed. Rebel candidate Rajendra Kishore Das who’s contesting as an impartial has a presence in all of the three panchayats of the constituency as he had received from the seat within the 2009 Assembly election, and was a powerful contender for the occasion ticket within the 2014 ballot and had misplaced to BJP within the 2019 election.
A majority of the employees of the ruling occasion had been his followers. Though he was denied a ticket by the occasion for the bypoll on the final minute, sources within the occasion stated that each one the native leaders and employees haven’t switched their loyalty. BJD candidate Abanti Das was confined to Tihidi panchayat and naturally didn’t have following in different components of the constituency. This has created a troublesome scenario for the ruling occasion.
The BJD tried to play the ladies card by fielding Abanti and reap the benefits of the truth that she was additionally member of the Mission Shakti self assist group (SHG). However, this appeared to haven’t labored as per BJD’s calculations.
Besides, interference within the ballot administration ranging from candidate choice by leaders from different Assembly constituencies and neighbouring district Jajpur have additionally given rise to sturdy resentment among the many native leaders and employees. Sources stated the ruling occasion’s final trump card is Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who’s more likely to marketing campaign nearly on October 30.
Sources stated the occasion will take inventory of the prevailing scenario after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s two-day padayatra within the constituency from January 28. A senior chief of the ruling BJD stated that the occasion might change its recreation plan then based on the scenario.
BHUBANESWAR: As marketing campaign for Dhamnagar bypoll has intensified, difficulties appear to be mounting for the ruling BJD regardless that greater than two dozen ministers, MLAs and senior leaders are tenting within the constituency to steer the occasion candidate to victory.
The BJD has taken a public stand that its candidate will win by an amazing margin of over 30,000 votes based mostly on calculations from panchayat and concrete native physique elections held earlier this 12 months. However, confidence is missing among the many leaders and employees who’re tenting within the constituency.
There are a number of causes for which the end result is probably not much like different bypolls by which the BJD candidates all the time prevailed. Rebel candidate Rajendra Kishore Das who’s contesting as an impartial has a presence in all of the three panchayats of the constituency as he had received from the seat within the 2009 Assembly election, and was a powerful contender for the occasion ticket within the 2014 ballot and had misplaced to BJP within the 2019 election.
A majority of the employees of the ruling occasion had been his followers. Though he was denied a ticket by the occasion for the bypoll on the final minute, sources within the occasion stated that each one the native leaders and employees haven’t switched their loyalty. BJD candidate Abanti Das was confined to Tihidi panchayat and naturally didn’t have following in different components of the constituency. This has created a troublesome scenario for the ruling occasion.
The BJD tried to play the ladies card by fielding Abanti and reap the benefits of the truth that she was additionally member of the Mission Shakti self assist group (SHG). However, this appeared to haven’t labored as per BJD’s calculations.
Besides, interference within the ballot administration ranging from candidate choice by leaders from different Assembly constituencies and neighbouring district Jajpur have additionally given rise to sturdy resentment among the many native leaders and employees. Sources stated the ruling occasion’s final trump card is Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who’s more likely to marketing campaign nearly on October 30.
Sources stated the occasion will take inventory of the prevailing scenario after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s two-day padayatra within the constituency from January 28. A senior chief of the ruling BJD stated that the occasion might change its recreation plan then based on the scenario.
