The BJD steamrolled to victory in Odisha's Padampur by-poll, after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik unleashed his charisma on the tribal-dominated constituency by personally going down to campaign for his party's rookie candidate Barsha Singh Bariha, who won the electoral battle against BJP's Pradip Purohit by 42,679 votes.

Though Patnaik had refrained from physical campaigning in by-polls since 2019, he made an exception this time after opposition BJP managed to wrest the recent by-election to the Dhamnagar constituency.