By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian National Congress on Saturday released its candidate list for Odisha. The Party has released a list of 9 candidates for Lok Sabha polls.
The party has chosen Sidharth Swarup Das for Kendrapara seat and Suchitra Mohanty for Puri seat. Mohan Hembram has been given the Congress ticket to fight the polls from Keonjhar while Anchal Das is the Congress candidate from Jajpur constituency.
The Congress party has fielded Sashmita Behera from Dhenkanal Lok Sabha seat in Odisha.
The party has picked former Union Minister Srikanta Jena to fight the Lok Sabha polls from Balasore seat while it has fielded NSUI Odisha unit president Yasir Nawaj from Bhubaneswar seat.
The Grand Old party has given tickets to veteran leaders Ananta Prasad Sethi and Rabindra Kumar Sethy from Bhadrak and Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha seats respectively.
The list of nine candidates:
Balasore—Srikanta Jena, Keonjhar—Mohan Hembram, Bhadrak—Ananta Prasad Sethi, Jajpur—Anchal Das, Dhenkanal—Sashmita Behera, Bhubaneswar—Yasir Nawaj, Kendrapara—Sidharth Swarup Das, Jagatsinghpur—Rabindra Kumar Sethy, Puri—Suchitra Mohanty.
