Biju Janta Dal (BJD) candidate and wife of former MLA Kishore Mohanty, Alaka Mohanty, won the by-election to the Brajarajnagar assembly constituency in Odisha on Friday.
BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty won by a huge margin of over 65,000 votes in the bypoll from the Brajrajnagar constituency in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district.
Over 2.14 lakh people are eligible to exercise their franchise in 279 polling booths in the by-election, which was necessitated following the demise of BJD MLA Kishore Mohanty in December last year, said a PTI report.