TNI Bureau: Will These “Legacy” Leaders Really Be Fighting Congress?
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In the 2024 elections, both Devi Ranjan Tripathy (Banki) and Souvic Biswal (Choudwar-Cuttack) were effectively in direct contests with BJP candidates, while Congress slipped to a distant third, reflecting its continued decline in those constituencies.
This raises a fundamental question: is targeting Congress still politically relevant for these leaders? The ground reality suggests otherwise. The primary contest in their respective constituencies has increasingly shifted towards the BJP. Whether directly or indirectly, they will ultimately have to face the BJP, not Congress.
 and Souvic Biswal (Choudwar-Cuttack) were effectively in direct contests with BJP candidates, while Congress slipped to a distant third, reflecting its continued decline in those constituencies.){kind=link}