Campaign ends, BJD enjoys an edge in Jharsuguda bypoll in Odisha

Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR:  With campaigning coming to an end on Monday for the May 10 Jharsuguda by-election, the heat and dirt have settled down leaving it to the voters to find out the future of the candidates throughout the fray.

As solely 48 hours keep for the voting course of to start out out, the ruling BJD seems to have a particular edge with the BJP and Congress competing for the second and third place. The sympathy wave seems to have carried out a critical place in favour of BJD candidate Deepali Das, daughter of former effectively being minister Naba Kishore Das whose assassination necessitated the bypoll.

Besides, the strong organisational building and beneficiaries of the massive enterprise neighborhood of her father have helped the ruling event to dominate the scene. The BJD, nonetheless, had left nothing to chance and appointed a dozen ministers and senior leaders throughout the 4 blocks of the constituency to oversee the poll course of. Ministers, MLAs and senior event leaders had been moreover engaged on the panchayat diploma to information the advertising and marketing marketing campaign. 

Lastly, chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s deal with to the voters at a mammoth meeting at Jharsuguda on Sunday seems to have further consolidated its place. The meeting of the chief minister was symbolic to woo the women voters as the entire leaders on the dais had been girls.

The BJD moreover seems to have gotten the influential Agria Samaj, which constitutes spherical 30 per cent of the voters throughout the constituency, on its side by asserting land and financial assist for them. “The last-moment change of mind of sizeable Congress voters belonging to the Agria community and shifting alliance to the BJD has further brightened the prospect of the ruling party candidate Deepali Das,” acknowledged a poll observer. 

Campaign over, BJD seems to have an edge throughout the Jharsuguda by-election

The Congress candidate Tarun Pandey, son of the three-time MLA Birendra Pandey, hails from the Agria group and was assured of getting a majority vote of his group. But, the state of affairs seems to have modified for him.

A remaining pre-poll analysis taking place the voter’s mood, nonetheless, revealed that the BJP has improved it place in all 4 blocks beneath the Assembly seat nonetheless the opening with BJD continues to be very extreme. 
This by-election, hopefully, the ultimate sooner than the 2024 regular elections, is important for the BJP on two counts.

It could be one different check out for the saffron event which has been dreaming to dislodge the Naveen Patnaik authorities from the state nonetheless has not been able to stop the BJD juggernaut from 2009 onward. The second is that that’s the fourth by-election in a single parliamentary seat of Bargarh represented by Suresh Pujari of the BJP. 

The event misplaced the bypolls in Bijepur in 2019, and Brajarajnagar and Padampur in 2022. The actuality stays that though the BJP gained the Bargarh Lok Sabha seat in 2019, it misplaced the entire seven Assembly segments beneath the parliamentary constituency the place elections had been held concurrently. 

The BJP was on no account worthwhile in Jharsuguda the place the battle was always between the BJD and Congress. The grand earlier event was relegated to third place after its two-time MLA Naba Kishore Das switched alliance to the BJD sooner than the 2019 election. The BJP was in second place with over 52,000 votes. 

DGP critiques security for bypoll

Bhubaneswar: DGP Sunil Kumar Bansal on Monday reviewed the security preparations for the Jharsuguda by-poll to be held on Wednesday. In a gathering held by the use of video conferencing, Bansal requested officers to make sturdy security preparations for the polls.

He moreover directed to intensify measures like bounding down routine offenders beneath sections 107 and 110 of CrPC, seizing illegal arms and illicit liquor and promptly executing non-bailable warrants. Director Intelligence Sanjeeb Panda, ADG Law and Order RK Sharma and completely different senior officers had been present.

BHUBANESWAR:  With campaigning coming to an end on Monday for the May 10 Jharsuguda by-election, the heat and dirt have settled down leaving it to the voters to find out the future of the candidates throughout the fray.

As solely 48 hours keep for the voting course of to start out out, the ruling BJD seems to have a particular edge with the BJP and Congress competing for the second and third place. The sympathy wave seems to have carried out a critical place in favour of BJD candidate Deepali Das, daughter of former effectively being minister Naba Kishore Das whose assassination necessitated the bypoll.

Besides, the strong organisational building and beneficiaries of the massive enterprise neighborhood of her father have helped the ruling event to dominate the scene. The BJD, nonetheless, had left nothing to chance and appointed a dozen ministers and senior leaders throughout the 4 blocks of the constituency to oversee the poll course of. Ministers, MLAs and senior event leaders had been moreover engaged on the panchayat diploma to information the advertising and marketing marketing campaign. googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Lastly, chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s deal with to the voters at a mammoth meeting at Jharsuguda on Sunday seems to have further consolidated its place. The meeting of the chief minister was symbolic to woo the women voters as the entire leaders on the dais had been girls.

The BJD moreover seems to have gotten the influential Agria Samaj, which constitutes spherical 30 per cent of the voters throughout the constituency, on its side by asserting land and financial assist for them. “The last-moment change of mind of sizeable Congress voters belonging to the Agria community and shifting alliance to the BJD has further brightened the prospect of the ruling party candidate Deepali Das,” acknowledged a poll observer. 

Campaign over, BJD seems to have an edge throughout the Jharsuguda by-election

The Congress candidate Tarun Pandey, son of the three-time MLA Birendra Pandey, hails from the Agria group and was assured of getting a majority vote of his group. But, the state of affairs seems to have modified for him.

A remaining pre-poll analysis taking place the voter’s mood, nonetheless, revealed that the BJP has improved it place in all 4 blocks beneath the Assembly seat nonetheless the opening with BJD continues to be very extreme. 
This by-election, hopefully, the ultimate sooner than the 2024 regular elections, is important for the BJP on two counts.

It could be one different check out for the saffron event which has been dreaming to dislodge the Naveen Patnaik authorities from the state nonetheless has not been able to stop the BJD juggernaut from 2009 onward. The second is that that’s the fourth by-election in a single parliamentary seat of Bargarh represented by Suresh Pujari of the BJP. 

The event misplaced the bypolls in Bijepur in 2019, and Brajarajnagar and Padampur in 2022. The actuality stays that though the BJP gained the Bargarh Lok Sabha seat in 2019, it misplaced the entire seven Assembly segments beneath the parliamentary constituency the place elections had been held concurrently. 

The BJP was on no account worthwhile in Jharsuguda the place the battle was always between the BJD and Congress. The grand earlier event was relegated to third place after its two-time MLA Naba Kishore Das switched alliance to the BJD sooner than the 2019 election. The BJP was in second place with over 52,000 votes. 

DGP critiques security for bypoll

Bhubaneswar: DGP Sunil Kumar Bansal on Monday reviewed the security preparations for the Jharsuguda by-poll to be held on Wednesday. In a gathering held by the use of video conferencing, Bansal requested officers to make sturdy security preparations for the polls.

He moreover directed to intensify measures like bounding down routine offenders beneath sections 107 and 110 of CrPC, seizing illegal arms and illicit liquor and promptly executing non-bailable warrants. Director Intelligence Sanjeeb Panda, ADG Law and Order RK Sharma and completely different senior officers had been present.