Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared Tankadhar Tripathy as its candidate to the ensuing by-poll to the Jharsuguda Assembly constituency in Odisha.
The central Committee of the BJP has issued a notification in this regard on Wednesday evening.
Tripathy will be contesting against BJD candidate Dipali Das and Congress candidate Tarun Pandey in the election.
As per the State Chief Electoral Officer’s office, the last date for filing nomination is April 20. Nomination papers will be scrutinised the next day while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is April 24.
The by-poll will be held on May 10 while the result will be declared on May 13.