Congress announces candidates for 75 Assembly seats in Odisha

The Congress on Sunday has announced its next list of candidates for 75 Assembly seats in Odisha. 

The party has fielded Niranjan Patnaik for Bhandaripokhari seat while Jaydev Jena has been named as the party candidate for the Anandapur constituency.

However, the Congress has changed three candidates announced earlier for Talasara, Baliguda and Kabiuryanagar seats.

Here is the Complete list of Candidates: 

Attabira(SC) - Abhishek Seth 
Talsara(ST) - Devendra Bhitaria (In place of Prabodh Tirkey) 
Kuchinda(ST) - Kedarnath Bariha 
Rengali(SC) - Dillip Kumar Duria 
Sambalpur - Durga Prasad Padhi 
Rairakhol - Assaf Ali Khan 
Deogarh - Sem Hembram 
Telkoi(ST) - Nirmal Chandra Nayak 
Ghasipura - Subrata Chakra 
Anandapur(SC) - Jayadev Jena 
Patna(ST) - Hrushikesh Naik 
Keonjhar(ST) - Pratibha Manjari Nayak 
Champua - Yashwant Laghuri 
Jashipur (ST) - Shweta Chattar 
Saraskana(ST) - Ram Kumar Soren 
Rairangpur(ST) - Jogendra Banra 
Bangriposi(ST) - Murali Dhar Naik 
Karanjia(ST) - Laxmidhar Singh 
Udala(ST) - Durga Charan Tudu 
Baripada(ST) - Badal Hembram 
Morada - Parvash Kar Mahapatra
Bhograi - Satya Shiba Das 
Basta- Bijan Nayak 
Remuna(SC) - Sudarshan Jena 
Soro(SC) - Subrat Dhada 
Simulia - Himanshu Sekhar Behera 
Bhandaripokhari - Niranjan Patnaik 
Bhadrak - Asit Patnaik 
Basudevpur- Ashok Kumar Das 
Dhamnagar (SC) - Ranjan Kumar Behera 
Chandabali - Amiya Kumar Mohapatra 
Binjharpur(SC) - Kanaklata Mallick 
Bari -- Arati Deo 
Dharmasala - Kisan Panda 
Jajpur -Sudip Kumar Kar 
Korei - Bandita Parida 
Dhenkanal - Susmita Singh Deo 
Hindol (SC) - Gobardhan Sekhar Naik 
Kamakhyanagar - Biprabar Sahu 
 Parjanga - Ranjit Kumar Sahu 
Talcher - Prafula Chandra Das 
Angul - Ambika Prasad Bhatta 
Chhendipada(SC) - Narottam Nayak 
Athamallik - Bijayananda Chaulia 
Birmaharajpur(SC) - Pradeep Sethi 
Sonepur - Priyabrata Sahu 
Titlagarh(ST) - Birendra Bag 
 Khariar - Kamal Charan Tandi 
 Baliguda(ST) - Upendra Pradhan (In place of Surada Pradhan) 
Baramba - Sanjaya Kumar Sahoo 
Banki - Debasis Patnaik 
Athagarh - Maheboob Ahemad Khan 
Choudwar -Cuttack Smt. Meera Mallick 
Niali(SC) - Jyoti Ranjan Mallick 
Cuttack - Sadar (SC) Rama Chandra Gochhayat 
Salipur - Aquib Uzzaman Khan 
Patkura -Ratikanta Kanungo 
Aul - Debasmita Sharma 
Paradeep - Niranjan Nayak 
Tirtol(SC) - Himanshu Bhusan Mallick 
Balikuda-Erasama - Nalini Swain 
Puri - Sujit Mahapatra 
Brahmagiri - Mitrabhanu Mohapatra 
Jayadev (SC) - Jayant Kumar Bhoi 
Ekamra - Bhubaneswar - Prasanta Kumar Champati 
Jatani - Santosh Jena 
Begunia - Pruthvi Ballav Patnaik 
Ranpur - Bibhu Prasad Mishra 
Nayagarh - Ranjit Dash 
Kabisuryanagar - Bipin Bihari Swain (In place of Chiranjeeyi Bisoyi) 
Khalikote(SC) - Chitra Sen Behera 
Aska - Surabhi Bisoyi 
Hinjili - Ranjikant Padhi 
Berrhampur - Deepak Patnaik 
Digapahandi - Shreedhar Dev 

After getting a ticket, veteran Congress leader Jeydev Jena said, ”The Gandhi family has faith in me. I have been with the party over many years and I am indebted to the party for having faith in me for 47 years and having given me a ticket for the 10th time.”

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Congress’ Berhampur candidate Deepak Patnaik, son of former minister Ditikrushna Charan Patnaik, said,” I have been with the party since 1980 and started my career in students’ politics. I am happy that Congress deemed me as an eligible candidate for the Berhmapur seat. Our party has given tickets to eligible leaders.”

Telkoi candidate Nirmal Nayak said,”I feel happy and proud for the party giving me a ticket. For the last 25 years, Telkoi has stil remained backward. Unemployment has grown acute while tribals have no development. The agriculture and healthcare sectors are in a shambles. If I am elected, I will work to ensure livelihood of the people.”

Pratibha Manjari Nayak, who was fielded in Keonjhar Assembly seat said,”I thank the top leaders of my party for giving me a chance to fight the poll. I was the block chairperson in 2007 and did some works. A lot of issues are there in the district.”

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