TNI Bureau: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the names of the candidates for 5 more Lok Sabha seats and 27 names for Odisha Assembly Polls. The party had announced candidates for 15 Lok Sabha and 72 assembly seats earlier.
The ruling party has fielded Bhrugu Baxipatra from Berhampur Lok Sabha Constituency.
BJD has repeated Ashok Panda (Bhubaneswar-Ekamra), Susanta Rout (Bhubaneswar-North), Deepali Das (Jharsuguda), Alka Mohanty (Brajarajnagar) among others.
Rupesh Panigrahi (Paralakhemundi), Adhiraj Panigrahi (Khariar), Ramesh Chandra Chyau Pattnaik (Berhampur) got the nod.
Pratap Jena’s son Ankit Jena has been fielded from Mahanga.
The party has dropped controversial Tirtol MLA Bijay Shankar Das and replaced him with Dr. Ramakant Bhoi.
Earlier, Patnaik has named candidates for 15 Lok Shabha seats.
With the announcement of five more candidates for Lok Sabha, the State ruling party has named candidates for a total of 20 seats out of 21. BJD yet to announce the candidate for Balasore Lok Sabha segment.
Below is the list of 5 BJD LS candidates:
1. Balangir: Surendra Singh Bhoi
2. Bhadrak: Manjulata Mandal
3. Bargarh: Parineeta Mishra
4. Berhampur: Bhrugu Baxipatra
5. Keonjhar: Dhanurjay Siddu
List of 27 Candidates for Odisha Assembly Polls:
1. Brajrajnagar: Alaka Mohanty
2. Jharsuguda: Dipali Das
3. Talsara: Bijay Toppo
4. Sundargarh: Jogesh Singh
5. Rajgangpur: Anil Barwa
6. Bonai: Bhimsen Choudhury
7. Jashipur: Chakradhar Hembram
8. Udala: Srinath Soren
9. Baripada: Sananda Marndi
10. Badasahi: Anusaya Patra
11. Moroda: Preetinanda Kanungo
12. Soro: Madhab Dhada
13. Athmallik: Nalinikant Pradhan
14. Birmaharajpur: Padmanav Behera
15. Khariar: Adhiraj Panigrahi
16. Phulbani: Jayshree Kanhar
17. Mahanga: Ankit Pratap Jena
18. Tirtol: Ramakant Bhoi
19. Jagatsinghpur: Prasant Muduli
20. Bhubaneswar-North: Susanta Rout
21. Ekamra-Bhubaneswar: Ashok Panda
22. Khalikote: Suryamani Vaidya
23. Aska: Manjula Swain
24. Berhampur: Ramesh Chyupatnaik
25. Paralakhemundi: Rupesh Panigrahi
26. Mohona: Antaryami Gamango
27. Pottangi: Prafulla Pangi
