BHUBANESWAR: The February 24 Bijepur byelection has generated really extensive curiosity in the state because it comes with reference to a yr prior to the following meeting election. What has made the bypoll more vital is the truth that it takes position amid the BJD's attempts to test the BJP's emergence as a significant challenger, overshadowing Congress, the ruling party's traditional opponent.
Recent problems such because the Koraput rape suicide and BJD MP Baijayant Panda's fallout with his party leadership is also the primary speaking issues throughout campaigning. Incidentally, Baijayant's mother, Ila Panda, a former Rajya Sabha member, is a local of Katapali, which is a part of the Bijepur meeting segment. Despite this, the BJD expects a very easy win in the bypoll, which it says, will take the wind out of BJP's ambitious 'Mission 120+' lengthy prior to subsequent yr's meeting election.
"This is the first byelection after 2014 and presumably the last before the next general elections. It can be an opinion poll for the general elections. Given our robust organizational strength and chief minister Naveen Patnaik's performance track record, our victory is certain. We will deflate BJP's Mission 120+," BJD vice-president Prasanna Acharya said. (The BJP had earlier said it might seize more than 120 of the 147 meeting seats subsequent yr)
On the opposite hand, state BJP president Basant Panda described the bypoll as a first step in opposition to conquering Odisha like most different states in the country. He said, "Every BJP worker understands well that Bijepur will be the first baby step to realize 'Mission 120+,' the target set by our party president, Amit Shah, for the next assembly election." He added, "Three factors — anti-incumbency, deteriorating law and order and BJP's organizational strength — will help us win."
Despite the BJD and BJP's aggressive campaigns, the Congress seems to be hopeful of doing smartly in Bijepur, which the Grand Old party had gained in the final 3 consecutive elections. "People are with us. Bijepur is a Congress bastion," Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Prasad Harichandan said as he talked about the election that many describe as an immediate struggle between BJD and BJP. The bypoll was once necessitated through the dying of sitting Congress MLA Subal Sahu on August 22.
On Monday, BJP assigned 3 senior leaders, Basanta Panda, legislature party chief KV Singhdeo and former minister Jaya Narayan Mishra the duty of overseeing its campaign in Barpali, Gaisilat and Bijepur segments of the constituency. BJP common secretary Ranjan Patel has been requested to look after coordination of the party's actions there.
With about 2.21 lakh electorate, Bijepur falls in drought-prone Padampur sub-division of Bargarh district. In the 2017 February panchayat election, BJP performed remarkably smartly through successful six of the seven zilla parishads there.
To make bigger its base in Bijepur, the BJD has nominated Subal's widow Rita as its candidate. Besides, the executive minister has announced a series of sops — a Rs 1,250-crore irrigation venture and upgradation of Bijepur panchayat to a notified house council — for the constituency. State ministers Susanta Singh and Niranjan Pujari and Prasanna Acharya were visiting the constituency ever since it fell vacant.
The BJP is more likely to box former BJD MLA Ashok Panigrahi towards Rita. On Tuesday, a six-member Congress workforce led through former leader minister Hemanand Biswal, will talk over with Bijepur to select its cadidate. There are two Congress males in contention — Pranay Sahu (Gaisilat block vice-chairman) and Ripunath Seth, who had gained the seat on a Congress price ticket in 1995.
Recent problems such because the Koraput rape suicide and BJD MP Baijayant Panda's fallout with his party leadership is also the primary speaking issues throughout campaigning. Incidentally, Baijayant's mother, Ila Panda, a former Rajya Sabha member, is a local of Katapali, which is a part of the Bijepur meeting segment. Despite this, the BJD expects a very easy win in the bypoll, which it says, will take the wind out of BJP's ambitious 'Mission 120+' lengthy prior to subsequent yr's meeting election.
"This is the first byelection after 2014 and presumably the last before the next general elections. It can be an opinion poll for the general elections. Given our robust organizational strength and chief minister Naveen Patnaik's performance track record, our victory is certain. We will deflate BJP's Mission 120+," BJD vice-president Prasanna Acharya said. (The BJP had earlier said it might seize more than 120 of the 147 meeting seats subsequent yr)
On the opposite hand, state BJP president Basant Panda described the bypoll as a first step in opposition to conquering Odisha like most different states in the country. He said, "Every BJP worker understands well that Bijepur will be the first baby step to realize 'Mission 120+,' the target set by our party president, Amit Shah, for the next assembly election." He added, "Three factors — anti-incumbency, deteriorating law and order and BJP's organizational strength — will help us win."
Despite the BJD and BJP's aggressive campaigns, the Congress seems to be hopeful of doing smartly in Bijepur, which the Grand Old party had gained in the final 3 consecutive elections. "People are with us. Bijepur is a Congress bastion," Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Prasad Harichandan said as he talked about the election that many describe as an immediate struggle between BJD and BJP. The bypoll was once necessitated through the dying of sitting Congress MLA Subal Sahu on August 22.
On Monday, BJP assigned 3 senior leaders, Basanta Panda, legislature party chief KV Singhdeo and former minister Jaya Narayan Mishra the duty of overseeing its campaign in Barpali, Gaisilat and Bijepur segments of the constituency. BJP common secretary Ranjan Patel has been requested to look after coordination of the party's actions there.
With about 2.21 lakh electorate, Bijepur falls in drought-prone Padampur sub-division of Bargarh district. In the 2017 February panchayat election, BJP performed remarkably smartly through successful six of the seven zilla parishads there.
To make bigger its base in Bijepur, the BJD has nominated Subal's widow Rita as its candidate. Besides, the executive minister has announced a series of sops — a Rs 1,250-crore irrigation venture and upgradation of Bijepur panchayat to a notified house council — for the constituency. State ministers Susanta Singh and Niranjan Pujari and Prasanna Acharya were visiting the constituency ever since it fell vacant.
The BJP is more likely to box former BJD MLA Ashok Panigrahi towards Rita. On Tuesday, a six-member Congress workforce led through former leader minister Hemanand Biswal, will talk over with Bijepur to select its cadidate. There are two Congress males in contention — Pranay Sahu (Gaisilat block vice-chairman) and Ripunath Seth, who had gained the seat on a Congress price ticket in 1995.
Bijepur a testing ground for BJD, BJP
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