It was a last moment decision that helps former BJD MP Prasanna Acharya to remain in power as a legislature. He was selected as the party candidate for Bhatli constituency of Bargah district after he expressed his unwillingness to contest the Lok Sabha election due to delimitation of the constituency. But he decided to contest from Rairakhol assembly after the sitting legislature and state health minister Sanatan Bishi decided to switch over to Rengali seat at the last moment and accordingly he snatched the party ticket from a lady candidate who was selected for the assembly seat. While Prasanna won the battle Sanatan Bishi remains unsuccessful.
“It is a win of the people of Rairakhol and win of the Naveen Patnaik’s clean image. I expressed my gratitude to my voters to elect me. I am happy that people have chosen me to serve them for nest 5 years”, Prasanna Acharya told soon after the declaration of the result.
Sources said, Rairakhol assembly constituency becomes general after the delimitation of the constituency. it was earlier reserved for the scheduled caste candidates. The state health minister Sanatan Bishi who won the seat twice consecutively feared to contest with the general candidates this time. So he switched over to newly created Rengali constituency considering it safe and healthy due to its reserved category. But Sanatan Bishi’s entry to the constituency had fueled the party aspirants who opposed Bishi candidature. “It was a wrong decision and Bishi has got the price for taking a wrong decision. He would have won had he been contested from Rairakhol”, a senior party colleague told.
But Sanatan Bishi does not repent for his decision of changing the constituency. “It was after al party decision. I have sincerely carried out the decision”, Mr. Bishi told accepting his defeat.
Sources said, Sanatan Bishi was opposed the day he decided to contest from Rengali constituency. “The party aspirant MB Prariraj contested as independent. His aim was to defeat the party candidate and he became successful”, a BJD worker of Rengali told. The congress candidate Durjyodhan Gardia won the seat with 32,654 votes defeating his nearest rival MB Prariraj over a margin of 13 thousands votes. Bishi remained in the third position with 15, 693 votes.
On the other hand Prasanna Acharya got 37,710 votes defeating his congress rival Asaf Alli Khan with a margin of nearly 10 thousand votes.
“It is a win of the people of Rairakhol and win of the Naveen Patnaik’s clean image. I expressed my gratitude to my voters to elect me. I am happy that people have chosen me to serve them for nest 5 years”, Prasanna Acharya told soon after the declaration of the result.
Sources said, Rairakhol assembly constituency becomes general after the delimitation of the constituency. it was earlier reserved for the scheduled caste candidates. The state health minister Sanatan Bishi who won the seat twice consecutively feared to contest with the general candidates this time. So he switched over to newly created Rengali constituency considering it safe and healthy due to its reserved category. But Sanatan Bishi’s entry to the constituency had fueled the party aspirants who opposed Bishi candidature. “It was a wrong decision and Bishi has got the price for taking a wrong decision. He would have won had he been contested from Rairakhol”, a senior party colleague told.
But Sanatan Bishi does not repent for his decision of changing the constituency. “It was after al party decision. I have sincerely carried out the decision”, Mr. Bishi told accepting his defeat.
Sources said, Sanatan Bishi was opposed the day he decided to contest from Rengali constituency. “The party aspirant MB Prariraj contested as independent. His aim was to defeat the party candidate and he became successful”, a BJD worker of Rengali told. The congress candidate Durjyodhan Gardia won the seat with 32,654 votes defeating his nearest rival MB Prariraj over a margin of 13 thousands votes. Bishi remained in the third position with 15, 693 votes.
On the other hand Prasanna Acharya got 37,710 votes defeating his congress rival Asaf Alli Khan with a margin of nearly 10 thousand votes.
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