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“A full of 14.99% of the 2.53 lakh electors exercised their franchise successful the archetypal 2 hours of voting successful the bypoll to Nuapada Assembly spot successful Odisha connected Tuesday (November 11, 2025),” an authoritative said.
Voting began astatine 7 a.m. successful each 358 polling booths, including 47 delicate ones, amid choky information arrangements.
Voting begins for bypolls to 8 Assembly seats crossed six States, 1 Union Territory
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaigner Jay Dholakia, on with his parent Kalpana Dholakia, casts his ballot astatine a polling presumption successful Mongarapali Government High School astatine Khariar Road.
While polling volition extremity astatine 5 p.m. successful 311 polling booths, it volition reason astatine 4 p.m. successful 47 delicate ones, including those successful Left Wing Extremism-affected areas.
Odisha's Chief electoral Officer R.S. Gopalan, astatine a property briefing, said voting was nether mode smoothly successful each the 358 polling booths and nary untoward incidental was reported till 10 a.m.
However, 1 presiding officer, identified arsenic Dhananjay Mallick, posted astatine Kuliabandh Government School, has been placed nether suspension connected the complaint of failing to support the secrecy of voting.
"We recovered done webcasting that 1 attendant formed a ballot for different idiosyncratic astatine the booth and walked away. The presiding serviceman did not entity to it. Therefore, helium was suspended and removed from the booth," the CEO said.
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly, Naveen Patnaik, successful an X post, appealed to each to workout their franchise successful the bypoll, which is the archetypal predetermination successful the State aft the 2024 wide elections.
"Voting is your right, each ballot is valuable. Let america enactment successful the Nuapada bye-election and ballot successful ample numbers," Mr. Patnaik said.
“Though determination was a disruption successful voting for immoderate clip astatine the Mongarapali polling presumption astatine Khariar Road owing to a method glitch, it was instantly rectified,” an authoritative said.
Of the 14 contestants, the cardinal candidates are the BJD's Snehangini Chhuria, BJP's Jay Dholakia, Congress' Ghasiram Majhi, and Ramakanta Hati of the Samajwadi Party.
The bypoll was necessitated pursuing the decease of BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia connected September 8. The BJP nominee is the lad of the deceased.
Apart from Odisha Police personnel, 14 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) person been deployed crossed Nuapada to guarantee the creaseless voting, Nuapada Superintendent of Police Amritpal Singh said.
