BJD announces 3rd list of candidates for Odisha Assembly polls 2024: Check list here
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday announced the third list of Odisha Assembly candidates for the upcoming general elections 2024. BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik announced the names in a video message.
Here is BJD’s 3rd list of candidates for Odisha Assembly polls along with their respective Assembly constituency from where they would contest:
Barabati-Cuttack: Prakash Behera
Salipur: Prasant Behera
Jayadev: Naba Kishore Mallik
Rengali: Sudarshan Haripal
Rourkela: Sarada P Nayak
Biramitrapur: Rohit J Tirkey
Keonjhar: Meena Majhi
Rairangpur: Raisin Murmu
Balasore: Swarup Das
It is to be noted that earlier in the first list for Assembly candidates BJD had named 72 candidates while in the second list the party had named 27 MLA candidates. And today in the third list BJD named 9 candidates. Accordingly, BJD has so far announced names of 108 candidates for the Assembly seats out of the total 147 Assembly constituencies in Odisha.
Besides the MLA candidates, the Biju Janata Dal has so far announced 20 names for the Lok Sabha polls in Odisha out of the 21 MP seats. Sans Balasore constituency, the party has already announced Lok Sabha MP candidates for other 20 constituencies.
The party has nominated ex-BJP leader and former Salipur MLA, Prakash Behera for Barabati-Cuttack seat. Behera on Wednesday joined BJD after quitting BJP.
Behera had been elected to the state Assembly from Salipur constituency on a Congress ticket in 2014.
He later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the 2019 elections on BJP ticket but lost to BJD’s Prasant Behera.
Meanwhile, the party has renominated Prasant Behera, Sarada Prasad Nayak and Swarup Kumar Das from Salipur, Rourkela and Balasore Vidhan Sabha constituencies this time.
Noted tribal leader and former Sundargarh MLA George Tirkey’s son Rohit Joseph Tirkey has been fielded from the Biramitrapur Assembly seat.
Tirkey had fought elections from the Biramitrapur seat on a Congress ticket in 2019. The party had nominated Sudarshan Haripal from Rengali in Sambalpur district.
The BJD nominated Meena Majhi from the Keonjhar Vidhan sabha constituency.
Former cop Raisen Murmu who joined BJD in November 2023 has been fielded from Rairangpur constituency in the Mayurbhanj district.
Naba Kishore Mallick has been named as a candidate from the Jayadev Assembly segment under the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency.
Mallick had contested elections in 2019 from the Jaydev constituency as an Independent candidate.
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