Many potential candidates in BJP for Bijepur Bypoll: Jual Oram

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Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram on Saturday said that his party has many potential candidates for the Bijepur bypoll.

“We have enough numbers of potential leaders. District BJP President Narayan Sahu, Gourahari Mishra, Phalapani Majhi, Tuku Mishra and Ashok Panigrahi are some of the potential names,” said Oram while speaking to the reporters.

Oram’s statement is considered to be an attempt to pacify the voice of dissent within the party over the Bijepur bypoll as the saffron party’s Bargarh district president Narayan Sahu had yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over former MLA Ashok Panigrahi’s possible candidature for the bypoll.

Clarifying that Ashok Panigrahi’s inclusion would increase BJP’s number of votes the Minister said, “The number of votes which we got in the previous election was not enough to clinch victory and it will not be enough even now to confront our top rival BJD. We will have to get some voters from the other parties. Hence, Inclusion of Ashok Panigrahi is in the greater interest of the party. If anyone shows discontent about the party’s decision, they will be pacified.”

Panigrahi, who had resigned from the ruling BJD, is slated to join the saffron party on October 2 in presence of Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram.

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