BJP's Odisha face & BJD's No. 2 face off in Sambalpur
Sambalpur: Sambalpur is going to be one of the most watched Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha where both the BJP and Biju Janata Dal have put their best foot forward.
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The BJP candidate, Dharmendra Pradhan, is a union minister and the face of the party in Odisha. The BJD has fielded its organisational general secretary and three-time MLA Pranab Prakash Das, known as Bobby Das. In the party, Das is considered to be the No.2 after chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
In 2019, BJP candidate Nitesh Ganga Deb won this seat by 9,162 votes. Deb is now campaigning for Pradhan in the Deogarh assembly segment, which he had represented before he became an MP in 2019.
In the past three elections, Sambalpur had given mandate to three different parties, all with a margin below 40,000.
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In 2009, Congress candidate Amarnath Pradhan won by a margin of 14,874 votes, while in 2014, BJD's Nagendra Pradhan won it by 30,576 votes.
Sambalpur is one of the largest Lok Sabha
