Bhubaneswar: Ruling BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty continued to lead over her rivals in Congress and BJP and eventually bagged victory in the Brajrajnagar assembly by-poll on Friday afternoon.
Mohanty secured nearly 65000 votes more than her nearest rival – Congress’ Kishore Patel. BJP’s Radharani Panda came in the 3rd position.
The bypoll was necessitated as MLA Kishore Mohanty, the husband of the BJD candidate, died in December last year.
This is the first time since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls that the BJP was struggling at the third spot, with the Congress coming up in the second spot.