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Today, the governing Biju Janata Dal (BJD) declared its third list of nine candidates for the upcoming Odisha Assembly elections.
Ahead of the state’s 2024 parliamentary elections, the party also declared their candidacy for the Balasore Lok Sabha seat.
The regional party has selected Lekhasri Samantasinghar, who recently left the BJP to join the BJD, to fight in the Lok Sabha elections from the Balasore seat.
Prasanna Acharya, a former minister and Rajya Sabha MP, is the candidate the ruling party is fielding for the Sambalpur Assembly seat. For the Odisha elections of 2024, it has renominated Rairakhol MLA Rohit Pujari from the same seat.
Ananta Narayan Jena, the MLA for Bhubaneswar Central, received a re-nomination from the BJD to run for the same seat in the 2019 Assembly elections.
Gitanjali Routray, the late minister Damodar Rout’s daughter-in-law and wife of MLA Sambit Routray, has been selected by the BJD to run in the elections from the Paradeep Assembly seat.
For the upcoming dual elections, the ruling party has so far declared their candidates for each of the 147 Assembly seats and 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha.
On March 27, the party led by Naveen Patnaik unveiled the initial slate of candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats and seventy-two Assembly seats.
On the same day, the party released a second list of six candidates for the state’s 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The regional party had announced its third list of candidates for five Lok Sabha seats and second list of candidates for 27 Assembly seats in Odisha on April 3.
Notably, the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha will be held in four phases on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1.
The counting of votes will be done on June 4.
The list of candidates:
Balasore Lok Sabha seat—Lekhasri Samantasinghar
Assembly seats:
Laxmipur–Prabhu Jani
Paradeep—Gitanjali Routray
Sambalpur—Prasanna Acharya
Rairakhol—Rohit Pujari
Telkoi—Madhab Sardar
Talcher—Braja Kishore Pradhan
Narla—Manorama Mohanty
Bhubaneswar Central—Ananta Narayan Jena
Baliguda–Chakramani Kanhar
Source:SE
