Bhubaneswar: Hours after announcement of the first phase list of BJD candidates for the first and second phase of Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Odisha, the Congress came up with its list of 42 candidates. In a late night development, AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik issued a release in New Delhi on Monday.
The party announced the name of 36 candidates for Assembly seats and 6 for Lok Sabha seats. The party has fielded new candidates for 4 Lok Sabha and 23 Assembly seats.
However, the party is yet to announce names of candidates for 9 Assembly seats and the Koraput Lok Sabha seat, polling for which is scheduled on April 11.
Mentioned below are the names of candidates for the Assembly seats:
1. Satya Bhusan Sahu (Padampur)
2. Nipan Das (Bargarh)
3. Nihar Mahananda (Attabira-SC)
4. Rohit Joseph Tirkey (Biramitrapur-ST)
5. CS Rajan (Rajgangpur-ST)
6. Binod Kumar Patra (Biramaharajpur-SC)
7. Narasingha Mishra (Balangir)
8. Ghasiram Majhi (Nuapada)
9. Adhiraj Panigrahi (Khariar)
10. Uldhar Majhi (Jharigan-ST)
11. Sadan Nayak (Nabarangpur-ST)
12. Bhujabala Majhi (Dabugan-ST)
13, Sivaji Majhi (Lanjigarh-ST)
14. Digambar Duria (Dharmagarh)
15. Siman Mallick (Baliguda-ST)
16. Kishore Chandra Kanhar (Phulbani-ST)
17. Prasant Sahu (Kantamal)
18. Prasant Kumar Nayak (Daspalla-SC)
19. Sanjay Kumar Tripathy (Bhanjanagar)
20. Hari Charan Swain (Polasara)
21. Bijay Kumar Sahu (Kabisuryanagar)
22. Manoj Kumar Jena (Aska)
23. Ramesh Chandra Jena (Sanakhemundi)
24. Ramakrushna Panda (Hinjili)
25. Dharmaraj Reddy (Gopalpur)
26. Lingaraj Choudhury (Berhampur)
27. Bismay Mahapatra (Digapahandi)
28. Subash Chandra Rout (Chikiti)
29. Dasarathi Gomango (Mohana-ST)
30. Purushottam Gomango (Gunupur-ST)
31. Nilamadhab Hikaka (Bisam Cuttack-ST)
32. Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Jeypore)
33. Krushna Chandra Kuldeep (Koraput-SC)
34. Rama Chandra Kadam (Pottangi-ST)
35. Mala Madhi (Malkangiri-ST)
36. Laxmipriya Nayak (Chitrakonda-ST)
The candidates for the six Lok Sabha seats announced by the party are:
1. Pradeep Kumar Debata (Bargarh-ST)
2. George Tirkey (Sundargarh-ST)
3. Bhakta Charan Das (Kalahandi)
4. Pradip Majhi (Nabarangpur-ST)
5. Manoj Kumar Acharya (Kandhamal)
6. V. Chandrasekhar Naidu (Berhampur)
