Bhubaneswar, May 12 -- The upcoming 2024 election is expected to be a tough triangular contest among three tribal heavyweights of the BJP, the BJD and the Congress in the Nabarangpur Lok Sabha (ST) seat comprising seven Assembly seats- Umerkote, Jharigaon, Nabarangpur, Dabugan, Kotpad, Malkangiri and Chitrakonda.

Given the electoral history, the three parties have seen a rollercoaster of success and failure in this Lok Sabha seat where tribal votes play crucial in deciding the political fortunes of the leaders.

The seat had seen a tough contest among the three parties in the 2019 election. BJD had fielded its three-time MLA Ramesh Chandra Majhi (twice from Dabugan and once from Jharigan Assembly seat) as its MP nominee for this seat. He...