Odisha Lok Sabha Election: VK Pandian Says Naveen Wave Everywhere, Confident Of BJD’s Victory

Odisha Lok Sabha Election 2024: Odisha 5T Chairman and BJD leader VK Pandian said that there is a Naveen (Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik) wave in every place in Balasore constituency in the state and expressed confidence in the BJD’s win in the Balasore Parliamentary constituency in the state.

“Today we campaigned in Balasore Parliamentary constituency. The kind of response we are getting, Naveen wave is evident in every place throughout Balasore…we are very confident of winning with a good margin this time,” Pandian told ANI on Tuesday.

VK Pandian Holds Roadshow in Balasore

Earlier in the day, he held a roadshow in the constituency where many BJD supporters turned up. From the open vehicle, he waved at them with many people holding BJD flags.

The Balasore Lok Sabha seat is set to witness a triangular contest with the Congress’s Srikant Jena, the BJP’s Pratap Sarangi and the BJD’s Lekhashree Samantsinghar mounting fierce campaigns.

BJP’s Pratap Sarangi is currently holding the seat. In the 2019 election, he defeated Biju Janata Dal’s Rabindra Kumar Jena by 12,956 votes.

In 2014, BJD’s Jena emerged victorious with 433,768 votes, surpassing BJP’s Sarangi by 141,825 votes. In 2009, Indian National Congress’ Srikant Kumar Jena won the seat.

The assembly and Lok Sabha polls in the BJD-ruled state are being held across four phases–from May 13 to June 1. The counting of votes for all phases in the state and elsewhere in the country will be held on June 4.

Odisha Assembly Election 2019 Results

In the last assembly elections in 2019, the BJD took home the bulk of the electoral spoils in the state, winning 112 out of the 146 seats. The BJP won 23 seats while Congress had to be content with just 9.

In the Lok Sabha elections that same year, the BJD mopped up the lion’s share of the spoils, with the BJP and the Congress bringing up the rear. The BJD won 12 seats, the BJP finished a close second at 8, and the Congress bagged just a lone seat.