Odisha Elections 2024: BJD Announces Candidates For 9 Lok Sabha, 72 Assembly Seats

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.