By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday announced candidates for 72 Assembly of the total 147 and 15 Lok Sabha seats of the total 21 Parliamentary Constituencies. The BJD has not yet announced its candidates for Keonjhar, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bargarh, Berhampur, and Bolangir Lok Sabha seats.
BJD Organizational Secretary Pranab Prakash Das as party candidate for Sambalpur LS seat against BJP nominee Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Manmath Routray, son of Congress veteran Suresh Routray, for the Bhubaneswar MP seat. BJP has re-nominated Aparajita Sarangi from the MP segment.
The BJD fielded Lambodhar Nial for Kalahandi MP seat while ex-MLA Anshuman Mohanty to contest from Kendrapara, ex-MP Paradip Majhi from Nabarangpur, Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey from Sundargarh, Minister Sudam Marandi from Mayurbhanj, Ranjita Sahu from Aska, Kaushalya Hikaka from Koraput, retired IPS officer Arup Patnaik will contest fromPuri LS segment against BJP nominee Sambit Patra.
The BJD nominated Santrupt Mishra from Cuttack MP segment. Though BJP has not announced itscandidate for Cuttack MP segment, it was speculated that Bhatruhari Mahtab maybe the candidate, if he joins the BJP.
Abinash Samal has been nominated to fight for Dhenkanal MP seat while three sitting MPs have been renominated from their respective seats. They are Rajashree Mallick in Jagatsinghpur, Achutananda Samanta in Kandhamal and Sarmistha Sethi Jajpur.
BJD Assembly Election Candidates List:
Patkura – Arvind Mohapatra
Aul – Pratap Deb
Rajnagar – Dhruba Sahu
Mahakalpada – Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak
Bissamkatak – Jagannath Saraka
Gunpur – Raghunath Gamango
Rayagada – Anusaya Majhi
Bargarh – Debesh Acharya
Bijepur – Rita Sahoo
Atabira – Snehangini Churia
Bhatli – Susanta Singh
Jaleswar – Ashiwni Patra
Basta – Subhasini Jena
Bhandaripokari – Sanjib Mallick
Bhadrak – Prafulla Samal
Basudevpur – Bishnubrata Routray
Dhamnagar – Sanjay Das
Chandbali – Byomkesh Ray
Dhenkanal – Sudhir Samal
Kamakshyanagar – Prafulla Mallick
Parjang – Nursingha Sahoo
Pallahara – Mukesh Pal
Chendipada – Sushant Kumar Behera
Sonepur – Niranjan Pujari
Loisingha – Nihar Behera
Patnagarh – Saroj Meher
Bolangir – Kalikesh Nayarayan Singh Deo
Titilagarh – Tukuni Sahu
Nuapada – Rajendra Dholakia
Umerkote – Nabina Nayak
Jharigaon – Ramesh Majhi
Nabarangpur – Kaushalya Pradhani
Dabugaon – Manohar Randhari
Lanjigarh – Pradip Dishari
Junagarh – Dibyashankar Mishra
Dharmagarh – Puspendra SinghDeo
Bhawanipatna – Latika Nayak
G Udaygiri – Saluga Pradhan
Kantamal – Mahidhar Rana
Boudh – Pradip Amat
Badamba – Debi Prasad Mishra
Banki – Debi Tripathy
Cuttack – Sauvik Biswal
Athagarh – Ranendra Pratap Swain
Niali – Pramod Mallick
Cuttack – Chandra Sarathi Behera
Puri – Sunil Mohanty
Brahmagiri – Uma Samantaray
Satyabadi – Sanjay Dasburma
Pipili – Rudrapratap Maharathy
Jatni – Bibhuti Balbantray
Ranpur – Satyanarayan Pradhan
Daspalla – Ramesh Behera
Nayagarh – Arun Sahoo
Bhanjanagar – Bikram Keshari Arukh
Polsara – Srikant Sahoo
Kabisuryanagar – Latika Pradhan
Chhatrapur – Subhash Behera
Sorada – Sanghamitra Swain
Hinjili – Naveen Patnaik
Gopalpur – Bikram Panda
Digapahandi – Biplab Patra
Chikiti – Chanmanya Nanda
Kotpad – Chandrasekhar Majhi
Koraput – Raghuram
Malkangiri – Manas Madkami
Ghasipura – Badrinarayan Patra
Patana – Jagannath Nayak
Bijharpur – Pramila Malik
Dharmasala – Pranab Balbantray
Jajpur – Sujata Sahoo
Sukinda – Pritiranjan Ghadei
