Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Dipali Das has won the Jharsuguda bypolls with a record margin of 48,619 votes.

The Jharsuguda assembly constituency of Odisha had been vacant since January this month after the death of state’s health minister Naba Kishore Das.

Dipali Das is the daughter of the late minister, who was assigned ticket by the BJD.

Dipali Das won by securing 107003 votes leaving the BJP behind which got 58,384 votes followed by the Congress that managed to secure 4,463 votes.

BJP fielded Tankadhar Tripathy to contest against Das. Tripathy is an officer bearer in the saffron party’s state youth wing. While the Congress candidate was Tarun Pandey.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik thanking the people of Jharsuguda, congratulated Dipali for her landslide victory and said her to work for the speedy progress of the constituency.

Experts have started claiming that with this win of BJD, it is again been proved that CM Patnaik is a champion in election monitoring.

BJD was confident of winning Jharsuguda as it has been a bastion of the Das family since 2009, which late Naba Das represented until his death earlier this year.

Naba Das was a veteran leader of the Biju Janata Dal who was held the position of the state ‘s health minister until his death.

Das in a shocking turn of event, On 29 January, 2023 was killed by a police constable while he was attending a public program in his constituency.

The incident of the killing of the minister was recorded on camera. A incident like never before in the history of the state, that horrified the state.

The counting of cotes began at 8 AM in the morning, which was completed in 19 rounds, the counting was done was 14 tables amid tight security arrangements.

Aam Aadmi Party’s Sushil Kumar Rinku today registered a thumping victory, by over 58,000 votes, over Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary—the candidate from Rinku’s former party, Congress—in the Jalandhar bypoll thus breaking the grand old party’s 24-year-old grip on the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat.

The Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat has been vacant since the demise of Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary who passed away due to a heart attack on January 14 while participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra alongside Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Chaudhary’s demise necessitated a by-poll for the vacant constituency seat with the Congress fielding the deceased leader’s wife Karamjit Kaur in what was essentially a four-pronged battle between the grand old party, the AAP, the Akali-BSP combine and the BJP.

The ruling AAP dispensation had fielded Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress leader, who was dismissed from the Congress for “anti-party activities”, and later, on April 5, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann.

Rinku was previously the Congress MLA from the Jalandhar West constituency in the previous assembly.

In a tweet, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said the party humbly accepts the people’s mandate and congratulated the AAP and its winning candidate Sushil Rinku.

The official count stands with the AAP securing 3,02,097 votes, beating the closest rival, Congress that secured 2,43,450 votes, while the Akali-BSP combine came in at third with 1,58,354 and the BJP ending up at the tail end with 1,34,706 votes.

Senior AAP leader Raghav Chadha who is currently in Delhi where he is reportedly getting engaged to actor Parineeti Chopra said the people of Jalandhar, the home of his maternal grandparents, have made the day even more special and memorable for him.

The BJP had fielded Sardar Indar Iqbal Singh Atwal in hopes of gaining some ground for the saffron party in Punjab ahead of next year’s Lok Sabha elections.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday credited the Congress’s sweeping victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections to Rahul Gandhi’s marathon ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, saying that during the atmosphere (of Congress victory) was visible when the former party chief landed in the state during his pan-India foot march.

Tweeting in Hindi, Gehlot wrote: “The atmosphere which was visible in Karnataka during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, today its result is clearly visible in today’s election results.”

He said the Karnataka Congress leaders did a great campaign under the leadership of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Gehlot said that that Karnataka has rejected communal politics and chosen the politics of development, adding that the same will be repeated in the upcoming state polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

The Rajasthan CM’s tweet came as the Congress inched towards registering a monumental victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections.

According to latest trends, the Congress is tipped to emerge victorious in the Karnataka polls with an absolute majority with veteran leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ruling out plans of a coalition with former ally HD Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (Secular).

Latest counts have put the grand old party ahead in over 130 seats, way ahead of the 113 required to form a majority government.

The Congress is all but on the verge of forming a majority government in the state as Chief Minister Basavaraj implicitly conceded defeat saying that BJP wasn’t able to cross the “magic mark” despite the best efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Karnataka win will serve as a morale booster for the entire Opposition and help the Congress build momentum in their bid to dethrone the PM Modi-led BJP at the Centre in next year’s Lok Sabha elections.