Bhubaneswar: BJD supremo and chief minister Naveen Patnaik declared the fifth list of candidates for four Lok Sabha seats and 19 Assembly constituencies on Saturday evening.
Names of eight sitting MLAs including former Finance minister Prafulla Ghadai were not mentioned in the Patnaik's list.
Similarly, names of two sitting MPs - Mohan Jena from Jajpur and Jashwant Singh Laguri from Keonjhar - have been dropped.
Rita Tarai replaced Mohan Jena in the Jajpur LS seat while Shankuntala Laguri replaced sitting MP Jashwant Singh Laguri in Keonjhar.
Prasanna Patsani was re-nominated for the Bhubaneswar LS seat while Dr Kulamani Samal was fielded from Jagatsinghpur parliamentary constituency.
The list of candidates for 19 Assembly seats is as follows:
Dr Damodar Rout-Paradip, Dr Rajeswari Mallick-Tirtol, Bishnu Das-Jagatsinghpur, Prasant Muduli-Balikuda Ersama, Akash Das Nayak-Korei, Pritiranjan Ghadei-Sukinda, Hrusikesh Nayak-Patana, Sashi Bhusan Behera-Jayadev, Bijay Mohanty-Bhubaneswar Central, Ashok Panda- Ekamra Bhubaneswar, Rama Ranjan Baliarsingh-Satyabadi, Surendra Sethi-Kakatpur, Prashant Jagdeb-Begunia, Mahesh Sahu-Pallahara, Badrinarayan Patra-Ghasipura, Jiban Pradip Das-Balasore, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi-Simulia, Jugal Patnaik-Bhadrak, Saroj Samal-Dhenkanal.