By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The Naveen Patnaik led BJD in Odisha till Wednesday night has so far announced its candidates for 99 Assembly seats of the total 147 seats and 20 Lok Sabha seats of the total 21. BJD is yet to decide on Balasore Lok Sabha seat.
Today, BJD Supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced candidates for 27 Assembly seats and 5 Lok Sabha seats.
Earlier , the Party had announced candidates for 72 Assembly seats and 15 Lok Sabha seats on March 27.
Of the 5 Lok Sabha candidates announced today, 4 are new Parinita Mishra from Bargarh, Dhananjay Sidhu from Keonjhar , Bhrugu Buxipatra from Berhampur , Surendra Singh Bhoi from Balangir . From Bhadrak Lok Sabha seat, Manjulata Mandal has been repeated.
Buxipatra who resigned from BJP today, got BJD ticket for Berhampur Lok Sabha seat.
27 MLA candidates were Bhubaneswar-North: Susanta Rout, Ekamra-Bhubaneswar: Ashok Panda, the Party has not decided on Bhubaneswar Central seat due to tussle between sitting MLA Ananta Jena and senior Corporator , Amaresh Jena.
Aska: Manjula Swain, Berhampur: Ramesh Chyupatnaik, Paralakhemundi: Rupesh Panigrahi, Mohona: Antaryami Gamango, Pottangi: Prafulla Pangi, Udala: Srinath Soren, Baripada: Sananda Marndi, Badasahi: Anusaya Patra, Moroda: Preetinanda Kanungo, Soro: Madhab Dhada, Athmallik: Nalinikant Pradhan, Birmaharajpur: Padmanav Behera, Brajrajnagar: Alaka Mohanty, Jharsuguda: Dipali Das.
Talsara: Bijay Toppo, Sundargarh: Jogesh Singh, Rajgangpur: Anil Barwa, Bonai: Bhimsen Choudhury, Jashipur: Chakradhar Hembram, Khariar: Adhiraj Panigrahi, Phulbani: Jayshree Kanhar, Mahanga: Ankit Pratap Jena, Tirtol: Ramakant Bhoi, Jagatsinghpur: Prasant Muduli, Khalikote: Suryamani Vaidya.
