BJP Ends Naveen Patnaik's Winning Run In Odisha's Dhamnagar
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BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj, son of late party MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi, defeated his nearest BJD rival Abanti Das by 9,881 votes.
The BJP riding on a sympathy wave for its candidate, the son of the party's deceased leader, and helped by a division of BJD votes on account of a rebel, coasted to a clear victory in the estuarine Dhamnagar constituency of Odisha on Sunday.
BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj, son of late party MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi, defeated his nearest BJD rival Abanti Das by 9,881 votes. While Suraj secured 80,351 votes, Das got 70,470 votes, according to the Election Commission.
Besides retaining the seat, the saffron party ended the ruling BJD's winning run in by-polls since 2019 when it came to power for the fifth consecutive term in the state.
While BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the result was “expected”, senior BJP leader and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan asserted that the result reflects people's trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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