Jharsuguda MLA Dipali Das To Take Oath Today

Bhubaneswar: Newly elected Jharsuguda MLA Dipali Das is all set to take oath today. he Deputy Speaker of the Odisha Assembly will administer her oath of office. According to sources, Dipali’s swearing is scheduled at 10:45 am.

Worth mentioning that the BJD candidate, Dipali Das, won the byelection by a strong margin of 48619 votes. She defeated her nearest BJP rival Tankadhar Tripathy.

The most remarkable fact is that she broke the record of the vote margin of her slain father Naba Das. Her father had won by a margin of 45699 votes in 2019 Assembly elections from Jharsuguda. This byelection had to be conducted because of the murder of Naba Das by a police ASI.

Dipali received a total of 107603 votes. Tankadhar of BJP got 58384 votes. The Congress candidate Tarun Pandey got only 4473 votes. However, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is yet to make any official announcement about the total number of votes.