TNI Bureau: As expected, BJD Candidate and daughter of late Naba Kishore Das, Deepali Das won the bypolls in Jharsuguda by a huge margin of 48,721 votes, bettering his father’s 2019 margin of 45,699 votes. Naba Das had secured 98,620 votes in 2019.
Deepali polled 107,198 votes after the end of 19 rounds of counting. BJP candidate Tankadhar Tripathy secured 58,477 votes as compared to 52,921 polled by Dinesh Jain of his party in 2019.
Congress continued to performed badly and lost the deposit. Congress candidate Tarun Pandey secured just 4496 votes as compared to 18,823 votes polled by Mahendra Nayak in 2019. Mahendra joined the BJD during the bypoll campaign.
