BJD retains Tirtol Assembly seat, wins by margin over 40k

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | November 10, 2020 IST

Bhubaneswar, Nov 10: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Bijay Shankar Das defeated BJP candidate Rajkishore Behera by 41703 votes in Tirtol seat in Jagatsinghpur district. The by-election at Tirtol was necessitated following the death of BJD MLA Bishnu Charan Das in Tirtol. Bijay, the son of the late legislator bagged 88310 votes while his rival Behera got 46607 votes. Earlier the BJD has also snatched the Balasore MLA seat from BJP after BJD candidate Swarup Das defeated BJP’s Manas Kumar Dutta by a margin of 13,351 votes. BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated the winners of the bypolls.

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