2024-06-06 14:25:02
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What did the 2019 Lok Sabha results look like? With Balasore and Mayurbhanj the main battlegrounds between BJP and BJD, it will interesting to observe the vote share. As early trends suggest BJD can be the opposition party in the legislative assembly. It is a table-turning political scenario for the Odisha State Legislative Assembly.
The early trends seems like aligning with Lok Sabha Exit Polls 2024 with a likely sweep of BJP. Going by the exit polls this year, ABP-CVoter gave the BJP 17-19 seats, India Today-My Axis predicted a clean sweep with 18-20 seats for the BJP.
Some of the key candidates from Odisha includes — Pratap Sarangi (Balasore), Manju Lata Mandal (Bhadrak), Sarmistha Sethi (Jajpur), and Rajashree Mallick (Jagatsinghpur) alongside Odisha Assembly Speaker Pramila Mallik, Government Chief Whip Prashant Kumar Mudili, and Odisha ministers Sudam Marandi, Ashwini Patra, Pritiranjan Ghadai, Atanu S Nayak, Pratap Deb and T K Behera.
