BJD names candidates for 2 LS & 21 Assembly seats

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Bhubaneswar: Chief minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today announced the party’s third list comprising candidates for two LS and 21 Assembly seats for the first phase of upcoming general elections on April 10.

While Jhina Hikaka will be BJD’s Lok Sabha candidate in Koraput, ex-Cong leader Hemendra Singh will contest from the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat. Newly inducted Hema Gamang will be the candidate for the Laxmipur assembly seat.

The party has re-nominated Sugnani Kumari Deo for Kabisuryanagar in place of Latika Pradhan who was given ticket for that seat earlier.

Minister Rabi Nanda will contest from his old seat Jeypore while Ashok Pangi has been named from Kotpad. The Polsara candidate is Srikant Sahu.

Six sitting MLAs have been dropped. No candidate has yet been named for the Kantaamal seat

The names of the candidates for Assembly seats are :

V Sugyani Deo-Kabisuryanagar

Priyanshu Pradhan-Chhatrapur

Rabi Narayan Nanda- Jeypore

Hema Gamang- Laxmipur

Raghuram Machha-Koraput

Harekrushna Sarangi-Balangir

Sanjib Pratap Deo-Biramitrapur

Srikant Sahu-Polasara

Purna Chandra Nayak-Daspalla

Prafulla Pangi-Pottangi

Ashok Pangi-Kotpad

Ashok Patua-Rengali

Susant Behera-Chhendipada.

Sanjib Sahu-Athmallik

Basanti Mallick- Mohana

Trinath Gamang-Gunpur

Prakriti Devi Singhdeo-Patnagarh

K Narayan Rao-Paralakhemundi

Rajib Patra-Baliguda

Raseswari Panigrahi-Sambalpur

Pradip Pradhan-G Udayagiri

Duguni Kanhar-Phulbani.