{"id":11248,"date":"2021-10-04T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=11248"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:16:15","slug":"prestige-battle-won-naveen-thanks-people-and-party-for-thumping-victory-of-bjd-in-pipili-bypoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/10\/04\/prestige-battle-won-naveen-thanks-people-and-party-for-thumping-victory-of-bjd-in-pipili-bypoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestige Battle Won: Naveen Thanks People and Party for Thumping Victory of BJD in Pipili Bypoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha&#8217;s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) yesterday won the bypoll to the Pipili Assembly constituency by 20,916 votes.<\/p>\n<p>BJD candidate Rudra Pratap Maharathy got 96,972 votes while BJP&#8217;s Ashrit Pattanayak secured second position with 76,056 votes. Congress candidate Bishwokeshan Harichandan Mohapatra was able to get only 4,261 votes, state Chief Electoral Officer S.K. Lohani said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,80,930 votes including 893 postal ballots were counted while 136 votes were rejected due to various reasons, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 10 candidates were in fray for the seat lying vacant after the death of sitting BJD lawmaker Pradeep Maharathy in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik thanked the people of Pipili area for their support to his party. He also congratulated his party workers and leaders for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>In the 147-seat house, the BJD now has 114 members, the BJP 22, Congress nine, while there is one CPI-M and Independent lawmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha&#8217;s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) yesterday won the bypoll to the Pipili Assembly constituency by 20,916 votes. BJD candidate Rudra Pratap Maharathy got 96,972 votes while BJP&#8217;s Ashrit Pattanayak secured second position with 76,056 votes. Congress candidate Bishwokeshan Harichandan Mohapatra was able to get only 4,261 votes, state Chief Electoral Officer S.K. Lohani said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-odisha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11256,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11248\/revisions\/11256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}