Days after rival events, the BJD and the BJP, introduced the names of their candidates for the Lok Sabha and meeting elections, to be carried out in Odisha concurrently, the Indian Nationwide Congress declared its first checklist for eight Lok Sabha and 49 Meeting constituencies.
The BJD had introduced 15, 72 candidates for the Lok Sabha and the meeting whereas the BJP launched the checklist of candidates for all 21 Lok Sabha seats. The saffron get together on Tuesday introduced the primary checklist of 112 candidates.
Distinguished candidates fielded by the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls embrace Saptagiri Ulaka. He’ll contest from the Koraput parliamentary seat, which he represents within the present Lok Sabha.
Moreover, former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das, and State Congress President Sarat Pattanayak, the sitting MLAs Santosh Singh Saluja and Tara Prasad Bahinipati have been nominated for the Meeting polls on get together tickets.
Sanjay Bhoi, Janardan Dehury, Manoj Mishra, Draupadi Majhi, Bhujabal Majhi, Amir Chand Nayak, and Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik have additionally been nominated for contesting the LS polls.
The meeting and Lok Sabha elections within the coastal state shall be held concurrently in 4 phases on Could 13, 20, 25 and June 1. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) with 12 seats bagged the utmost variety of seats, adopted by the BJP with 8 and the Congress with one seat.
Within the final meeting elections, held concurrently with the final election in 2019, the BJD registered a thumping electoral victory successful 113 of the 147 seats. The BJP got here a distant second with 23 seats, adopted by the Congress with 9. The CPM gained one seat and one other was gained by an Impartial.
Within the run-up to the dual polls, the grand previous get together, which has been relegated to third spot within the final Meeting polls, has suffered a collection of reverses in political fortunes.
Right this moment, senior Congress chief and former minister Ganeswar Behera resigned on Tuesday from the first membership of the get together. A number of Congress leaders together with former Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee working president and ex-MLA Chiranjib Biswal, former minister Surendra Singh Bhoi, sitting MLA Adhiran Panigrahi, ex-MLA Okay Surya Rao and Ansuman Mohanty have joined the BJD within the latest previous.
Mendacity low following successive electoral drubbing since 2000, the Congress get together within the state has already misplaced the principal Opposition get together standing to BJP.
Through the years, its vote share has reached its lowest ebb at 17.02 per cent through the 2019 meeting elections, means behind the Biju Janata Dal (44.71 per cent) and the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (32.49 per cent). Of the 147 meeting seats Congress contested final time, it didn’t hit the double-digit mark, managing to win solely 9 seats.
