Jharsuguda Bypoll to be held on May 10; Counting of votes on May 13

Bhubaneswar: Bypoll to the Jharsuguda Assembly Constituency in Odisha will be held on May 10, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced today.

The counting of votes will take place on May 13, the commission said.

The bypoll was necessitated after the murder of MLA Naba Kishore Das on January 29, this year.

Below are other key dates of the bypoll.

The BJD is likely to nominate Late Naba Das’s daughter Dipali while the BJP is likely to nominate its youth leader Tankadhar Tripathy. Both Dipali and Tripathy have already started campaigning in the constituency.

Congress state president Sarat Pattanayak said he has formed a committee led by senior leader and MLA Santosh Singh Saluja to select a suitable candidate.

Notably, minister Naba Das was killed by police ASI Gopal Das (now sacked) on January 29. The cop had shot the minister from a very close range. Though the police arrested the accused from the spot, it is yet to find-out the motive behind the murder.

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