Gearing up for the Lok Sabha Polls and State Polls in Odisha that slated to be clubbed, Biju Janta Dal Chief Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday released another list of Candidates for 9 Lok Sabha seat. The Odisha ruling party has named Pinaki Mishra from Puri Lok Sabha Seat to take on Bharatiya Janata Party Spokesman Sambit Patra.
Odisha: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) releases another list of candidates for #LokSabhaElection2019; Pinaki Mishra to contest from Puri parliamentary constituency. pic.twitter.com/6sz8yMK4Ye
— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2019
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who has already made it clear that he will not go with an alliance and will contest polls on its own announced names for 9 Parliamentary Seats that includes:
- Pinaki Mishra from Puri
- Arup Mohan Patnaik from Bhubneshwar
- Debashish Marandi from Mayurbhanj
- Rajashree Mallick from Jagatsinghpur
- Nalini Pradhan from Sambalpur
- Rabindra Kumar Jena from Balasore
- Anubhav Mohanty from Kendrapara
- Sarmishta Sethi from Jajpur
- Manjulata Mandal from Bhadrak
With this list, the party has now total declared its candidates on 18 parliamentary Seats out of 21 Seats of the state. Earlier the party in its first list has announced candidates on 9 Lok Sabha Seats with Kausalya Hikaka contesting from Koraput (ST), Prasanna Acharya from Bargarh, among others.
BJD in a run-up to the polls will take on aggressive Bhartiya Janta Party and Congress who has inked an alliance with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
General Elections are slated for April-May this year that would spread on Seven Phases starting from April 11 to May 19. Election Commission had on Sunday declared schedule for General Elections 2019.
READ: Check Out the Full List of BJP Candidates for the Lok Sabha Polls 2019
The Counting of votes for the mega battle of ballots will take place on May 23, four days after last round of polling.
The Odisha State Polls will be clubbed with the General Elections 2019. The State will Poll on the four rounds of Polling starting from April 11. The State has a total of 147 State Assembly while having 21 Lok Sabha Seats.
In 2014 General Elections, BJD totally swept the state by bagging 20 seats out of 21 seats while banking on ‘Modi Wave’ the saffron party could only manage to get 1 Lok Sabha Seat in the state.
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