TNI Bureau: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) suffered a huge setback as it lost all 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha and drew blank for the first time since inception.
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BJP won 20 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats while Congress won Koraput.
Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka from Indian National Congress (INC) won the Koraput Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 1,47,744 votes.
Though BJD was leading in only one seat — Jajpur with a very thin margin, it lost the Lok Sabha Polls towards the end.
In 2019, the BJD had won 12 Lok Sabha seats, while BJP won 8 and Congress 1.
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