Sons Of 3 Leaders Among 9 New Faces In BJD List Of Assembly Candidates

Bhubaneswar: The fourth list of the BJD candidates for 36 Assembly seats announced by party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday has nine new faces, including the sons of three sitting MLAs.

The candidates for 36 Assembly seats are as follows:
1. Angul – Rajanikant Singh
2. Brahmagiri – Sanjay Dasburma
3. Ekamra Bhubaneswar – Ashok Chandra Panda
4. Banki – Debi Ranjan Tripathi
5. Patkura- Bed Prakash Agrawal
6. Aul- Pratap Keshari Deb
7. Bhandaripokhari – Prafulla Kumar Samal
8. Binjharpur- Pramila Mallick
9. Badamba Narsinghpur – Debi Prasad Mishra
10. Chhendipada – Susant Kumar Behera
11. Simulia – Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi
12. Sukinda- Priti Ranjan Ghadai
13. Dharmasala- Pranab Balabantaray
14. Chandbali – Byomakesh Ray
15. Cuttack – Choudwar – Souvik Biswal
16. Parjanga – Nrushingha Sahu
17. Mahanga – Pratap Kumar Jena
18. Remuna – Sudhansu Sekhar Parida
19. Basudevpur – Bishnubrata Routray
20. Salepur- Prasant Behera
21. Nayagarh- Arun Kumar Sahu
22. Kuchinda- Kishore Nayak
23. Karanjia – Basanti Hembram
24. Ghasipura- Badri Narayan Patra
25. Mahakalapada- Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak
26. Keonjhar- Madhab Sardar
27. Telkoi – Premananda Nayak
28. Bhogarai -Ananta Kumar Das
29. Talcher- Braja Kishore Pradhan
30. Dhenkanal – Sudhir Kumar Samal
31. Hindol- Seema Rani Nayak
32. Kamakhyanagar- Prafulla Mallick
33. Athagarh – Ranendra Pratap Swain
34. Satyabadi – Umakant Samantray
35. Patana – Jagannath Nayak
36. Ranapur – Satya Narayan Pradhan

Taking note of the complicity of the two sitting MLAs—Pravat Biswal (Cuttack-Choudwar) and Pravat Tripathy (Banki) in the multi-crore chit fund scam, BJD has picked their sons Souvik Biswal and Debi Ranjan Tripathy respectively for these two constituencies.

Apart from this, the party has decided to replace the sitting Basudevpur MLA and the Forest and Environment minister Bijayshree Routray with his son Bishnubrata Routray for the seat.

The remaining seven new candidates announced by the party are Sudhansu Sekhar Parida-Remuna (in place of Sudarshan Jena), Kishore Nayak- Kuchinda (in place of Bhubaneswar Kisan), Madhab Sardar- Keonjhar (in place of Abhiram Nayak), Premananda Nayak – Telkoi (in place of Bedabyasa Nayak), Sudhir Kumar Samal- Dhenkanal (in place of Saroj Kumar Samal), Jagannath Nayak – Patana (in place of Hrusikesh Nayak) and Satya Narayan Pradhan – Ranapur (in place of Rabinarayan Mahapatra).

Arun Sahoo and Sanjay Dasburma have been given tickets, dropping the plan to engage them full-time in election management work.

The candidature of Jajpur MLA Pranab Prakash Das (Bobby) is yet to be announced.