BJD’s Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh on Sunday won the by-election for Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat in Odisha, defeating BJP’s Rudramadhab Ray by a huge margin of 2.98 lakhs votes. While the congress candidate was pushed to the third spot in the by-poll, which was held on Oct-15. Earlier, Pratyusha's husband Hemendra Chandra Singh, who died in Sept, was MP from Kandhamal.