A Panchayat Samiti Member candidate, Dilip Kumar Jena, died in the Brahmagiri area of Puri district on the first-phase panchayat election polling day on Monday.
Jena suffered from cardiac arrest while he was appealing to voters near a polling booth to vote for him in the morning. He was rushed to hospital, where he died while undergoing treatment.
He was contesting in Titipa panchayat under Krushnaprasad block in the district.