Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday officially declared the name of Pradip Purohit as its candidate for the upcoming bye-election to the Padampur Assembly Constituency in Bargarh district.
BJP’s Sundargarh MLA Kusum Tete had yesterday informed that the party decided to field Pradip Purohit as its candidate for the bye-election. He will be filing his nomination for the bypoll on November 14.
Voting for the bypoll will be held on December 5, while results are scheduled to be declared on December 8. The last date of filing nomination papers is November 17 and the scrutiny is on November 18. The last date of withdrawing candidature is November 21.
The bypoll was necessitated after the demise of BJD MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on October 2.
