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Candidates of the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress connected Saturday filed their information papers for the byelection to the Nuapada Assembly constituency successful Odisha.
BJP campaigner Jay Dholakia and Congress nominee Ghasiram Majhi submitted 2 sets of papers each, an authoritative said.
Accompanied by State BJP president Manmohan Samal, Ministers Rabinarayan Naik and Ganesh R. Singhkhuntia, and a fig of enactment MLAs, Mr. Dholakia reached the territory collector’s bureau to taxable his papers, starring a procession.
The procession, which saw the information of hundreds of people, started from Khariar Road and touched assorted parts of the municipality earlier culminating adjacent the collector’s office.
Mr. Majhi, a salient tribal leader, besides reached the collector’s office, starring a monolithic procession. He filed the information papers successful the beingness of authorities Congress president Bhakta Charan Das, erstwhile Minister Suresh Routray, and respective elder enactment leaders.
Mr. Majhi, who contested arsenic an Independent campaigner for the spot successful past year’s Assembly polls aft being denied a Congress ticket, came 2nd by securing astir 51,000 votes.
The past State Congress president Sarat Pattanayak was the enactment campaigner for the spot and finished 4th successful the race.
The BJD bagged the seat, portion the BJP came third. The bypoll was necessitated by the decease of BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia, whose lad Jay is this clip the BJP candidate.
So far, 5 radical person submitted information papers for the bypoll, scheduled to beryllium held connected November 14, officials said.
BJD campaigner Snehangiri Chhuria volition record her information papers connected the past day connected Monday.
The scrutiny of papers volition beryllium conducted connected October 22, and the past day for withdrawal of nominations is October 24. The votes volition beryllium counted connected November 14.
