BJP’s Suryabnashi Suraj Clinches Dhamnagar Bye-Election

Dhamnagar: Bhadrak’s Dhamnagar constituency kept former legislator Bishu Sethi’s legacy by electing his son and BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj as their representative in Odisha Assembly.

According to a report released by ECI, BJP clinched the bye-elections for the Dhamnagar assembly constituency as its candidate Suryabanshi Suraj won from rival BJD by a margin of 9,881 votes.

Suraj was leading from the first and consistently maintained the trend till the end of counting for 18 rounds, on Sunday. While Suraj bagged 80,351 votes, his contender, Abanti Das polled 70,470 votes.

BJD rebel Rajendra Das got 8,153 votes while Congress candidate Baba Harekrushna Sethi polled 3,561 votes.

Worth mentioning the by-election to the Dhamnagar constituency in Odisha’s Bhadrak district was necessitated after the untimely demise of the standing MLA, Bishnu Sethi.

The second independent candidate Pabitra Mohan Das polled 497 votes, while 650 persons voted for NOTA. All total, 1,63,682 votes were cast in this bye-election, the Election Commission of India figures stated.

As per the ECI, Suraj got 49.09% votes followed by Das who bagged 43.05% votes. Das got around 5% votes and the Congress candidate Sethi received 2.18% votes.

Following the formal announcement of the CEC, as many as five candidates were in the fray for the democratic struggle.