Bypoll to Nuapada assembly seat in Odisha likely to be held along with Bihar elections: Election Commission of India

The Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) said that bypoll to the Nuapada assembly conception successful Odisha volition apt beryllium held on with the upcoming Bihar elections.

In a property statement, the ECI announced the deployment of 470 officers. Serving successful assorted states, arsenic cardinal observers (general, constabulary and expenditure) for the Bihar Assembly polls and the by-elections successful 7 states, including Odisha’s Nuapada segment.

The observers enactment nether the superintendence, power and subject of the committee from their assignment to the completion of the predetermination process, the connection said.

They would enactment arsenic eyes and ears of the committee and support reporting to the sheet periodically and connected a request basis, it said.

The by-election to the Nuapada Assembly constituency was necessitated owed to the demise of sitting MLA Rajendra Dholakia connected September 8 owed to health-related issues.

Dholakia was a four-time MLA from the Nuapada seat. He was a curate successful the Naveen Patnaik furniture from 2022 to 2024.

With his demise, the fig of BJD MLAs successful the 147-member assembly has travel down to 50, portion the BJP has 78, Congress 14, CPI (M) 1, and 3 autarkic legislators.