Bhubaneswar: BJD candidate Dipali Das is leading with 5944 votes, followed by BJP’s Tankadhar Tripathy with 3238 votes and Congress’ Tarun Pandey with 123 votes after the Round 1 counting.
According to reports, the counting of votes for the Jharsuguda Assembly Constituency bypoll began at 8 AM today. The votes are being counted on 14 tables and the counting will be done in as many as 19 rounds.
Counting is being conducted at the Jharsuguda Engineering School, where 3-tier security has been put in place. Postal ballot counting in the Jharsuguda bypoll began at 8 am. After, all the EVM votes will be counted following which counting of 5 booths, where VVPAT was used, will be done.
