The campaigning for the Tirtol Assembly constituency by-election ended on Sunday evening with road shows, public meetings and door-to-door campaigning by candidates and their supporters belonging to various political parties and independent aspirants. The voting will take place on Tuesday.
The Congress held road shows in the Raghunathpur area under the leadership of party MLA Suresh Routray. A similar rally was held in Biridi block led by former MLAs Chiranjib Biswal, Ganeswar Behera and Debasis Patnaik besides party candidate Himansu Bhusan Mallick.
The party organised a public meeting at Tirtol headquarters.The BJD’s road shows were held in Biridi and Raghunathpur.
Later, a public meeting was held in Tirtol in evening which party heavyweights Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, MP Rajashree Mallick, MLAs Prasanta Muduli and Sambit Routray and party candidated Bijaya Shankar Das addressed and appealed voters to cast vote to BJD. The BJP opted for holding door-to-door campaigning without holding road shows and public meetings on Saturday.
Party candidate Rajkishore Behera visited a few villages in Tirtol and Raghunathpur blocks seeking blessings from people.
In an interesting development, former BJD leader and former Minister Damodar Rout hit the campaign trail for the BJD appealing to the voters to cast vote in favour of nominee Bijaya.
It looks the BJD is likely to retain the seat.