Puri: The political atmosphere heated up as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ashrit Pattanayak today filed his nomination for the upcoming bypoll to Pipili Assembly Constituency.
Accompanied by his supporters adhering to COVID-19 rules, Pattanayak reached the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Office in Puri and filed his nomination papers for the bye-election scheduled on April 17.
Presently, Ashrit Pattanayak is the president of party’s Puri district unit. He had also contested in the 2019 Assembly elections from Pipili, but lost to late Pradeep Maharathy by 15,787 votes.
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