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The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) connected Saturday announced that it would attack the Election Commission of India (EC), alleging discrepancies successful voting patterns during the precocious concluded Nuapada bypoll, wherever BJP campaigner Jay Dholakia secured a decisive victory.
At a gathering of the party’s apex body, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), chaired by BJD president and erstwhile Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik astatine his residence, leaders flagged “serious irregularities” successful the polling process.
The PAC identified 63 booths successful the Nuapada Assembly constituency wherever the enactment suspects the voting signifier was manipulated oregon did not bespeak ground-level support, prompting the determination to question the EC’s intervention.
PAC subordinate Pramila Mallik said, “We don’t cognize wherever our votes person gone. Our cadres are expressing daze and disbelief implicit the bypoll outcome. We volition taxable a ceremonial practice to the EC.” The EVM was suspected to person been tampered with, BJD leaders alleged.
This is not the archetypal clip the determination enactment has questioned predetermination results. Following its shocking decision successful 2024, the BJD conducted an in-depth reappraisal of voting patterns, peculiarly the abrupt spike successful ballot percent recorded aft 5 p.m., erstwhile polling had officially ended.
BJP campaigner Mr. Dholakia polled 1,23,869 votes, Congress nominee Ghasi Ram Majhi secured 40,121, and the BJD was pushed to a distant 3rd with conscionable 38,408 votes.
The BJD which has been the ascendant governmental enactment during the past 2 decades successful Odisha is not capable to reconcile with the bypoll results which saw enactment slipping into the 3rd position. Party supremo Mr. Patnaik had gone doubly to Nuapada to run actively for BJD candidate.
