Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the first list of party candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 72 Assembly seats in Odisha.
Lok Sabha Candidates & Constituencies
Kalahandi – Lambodar Nial
Sambalpur – Pranab Prakash Das
Sundargarh – Dilip Tirkey
Mayurbhanj – Sudam Marndi
Kendrapada – Anshuman Mohanty
Nabarangpur – Pradeep Kumar Majhi
Bhubaneswar – Manmath Routray
Koraput- Kausalya Hikaka
Aska – Ranjita Sahu
Among these candidates, only Kausalya Hikaka had contested the 2019 elections and lost to Congress’ Saptagiri Ulaka by a slender margin of 3,613 votes. Dilip Tirkey was the BJD’s candidate for 2014 elections from Sundargarh and he had lost to BJP’s Jual Oram by 18,829 votes. Pradeep Kumar Majhi had won the Lok Sabha from Nabarangpur in 2009 on Congress ticket. He joined the BJD in 2021.
Sudam Marndi, who was the president of the Odisha unit of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), had joined the BJD in 2014.
Manmath Routray, who joined BJD this morning, will be making his electoral debut from Bhubaneswar. He is the son of senior Congress leader and 6-time Jatni MLA Suresh Routray.
The BJD, on the other hand, dropped sitting MP Anubhav Mohanty and nominated Anshuman Mohanty from Kendrapada.
The other new face is Ranjita from Aska. She is the daughter of Hara Prasad Sahu, BJD leader and former chairman of Kodala notified area council. Her mother Sunitaprava Sahu is also former chairperson of Kodala NAC. Ranjita has been active in Kabisuryanagar assembly segment and has been heading Kabisurya Yubak Sangha.
Naveen also announced candidates for 72 Assembly seats and 13 among them are new faces. The BJD has swapped its candidates, who had fought 2019 from Bhadrak and Bhandaripokhari and and also from Brahmagiri and Satyabadi. Kalikesh Singh Deo, who was earlier an MP, has been fielded from an assembly constituency this time.
Naveen is set to re-contest from Hinjili seat for a sixth term.
Candidates For Assembly Seats
Bisam Cuttack – Jagannath Saraka
Gunupur – Raghunath Gamango
Rayagada – Anusaya Majhi
Bargarh – Debesh Acharya
Bijepur – Rita Sahu
Attabira – Snehangini Churia
Bhatli – Susant Singh
Jaleswar – Aswini Patra
Basta – Subhasini Jena
Bhandaripokhari – Sanjeeb Mallik
Bhadrak – Prafulla Samal
Basudevpur – Bishnubrata Routray
Dhamnagar – Sanjay Das
Chandabali – Byomokesh Ray
Binjharpur – Pramila Mallik
Dharmashala – Pranab Balabantray
Jajpur – Sujata Sahu
Sukinda – Preetiranjan Gharai
Dhenkanal – Sudhir Ku Samal
Kamakhyanagar – Prafulla Mallik
Parjang – Nrusingha Sahu
Pallahara – Mukesh Pal
Chendipada – Susant Ku Behera
Sonepur – Niranjan Pujari
Loisingha – Nihar Behera
Patnagarh – Saroj Meher
Balangir: Kalikesh Singh Deo
Titlagarh – Tukuni Sahu
Nuapada – Rajendra Dholkia
Umerkote – Nabina Nayak
Jharigam – Ramesh Majhi
Nabarangpur – Kaushalya Pradhani
Dabugam – Manohar Randhari
Lanjigarh – Pradeep Dishari
Junagarh – Dibya Shankar Mishra
Dharmagarh: Pushpendra Singhdeo
Bhawanipatna – Latika Nayak
G Udyagiri – Saluga Pradhan
Kantamal – Mahidhar Rana
Boudh – Pradip Amat
Baramba – Debi Mishra
Banki – Debi Tripathy
Athagarh – Ranendra P Swain
Cuttack Choudwar – Sauvik Biswal
Niali – Pramod Mallik
Cuttack Sadar – Candra Sarathi Behera
Patkura – Arvind Mohapatra
Aul – Pratap Deb
Rajnagar – Dhruva Sahu
Mahakalpada – Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak
Puri – Sunil Mohanty
Brahmagiri – Uma Samantray
Satyabadi – Sanjay Das Burma
Pipli – Rudra Maharathy
Jatni – Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantray
Ranpur – Satya Pradhan
Daspalla – Ramesh Behera
Nayagarh – Arun Ku Sahoo
Bhanjanagar – Bikram Arukha
Polsara – Srikant Sahu
Kabisuryanagar – Latika Pradhan
Chhatrapur – Subash Behera
Soroda – Sanghamitra Swain
Hinjili – Naveen Patnaik
Gopalpur – Bikram Panda
Digapahandi – Biplab Patro
Chikiti – Chinmayananda Srirup Deb
Kotpad – Chandrasekhar Majhi
Koraput – Raghuram Podal
Malkangiri – Manas Madkami
Ghasipura – Badri Patra
Patna – Jagannath Nayak
Odisha will vote in four phases on May 13, 20, 25 and June 1.
