Bhubaneswar: BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced the first list of party candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats in Odisha.
Candidates & LS 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 dropped sitting MP Anubhav Mohanty and nominated Anshuman Mohanty from Kendrapada.
Ranjita is 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 71 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 will be contesting again from Hinjli Assembly constituency.
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.