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.”