BJP announces list of candidates for Odisha Assembly polls

New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday introduced an inventory of candidates for the Meeting elections in Odisha.

The listing of 112 names had a number of names of Biju Janata Dal turncoats. Former MP and actor Siddhant Mohapatra, sitting MLA Arabinda Dhali, former MLAs Akash Das Nayak, Priyadarshi Mishra, Rajendra Das, Purna Chandra Sethi and Okay Anil Kumar are amongst those that had left the BJD lately, that the BJP has fielded .

Among the many turncoats, the BJP has fielded Mohapatra, an actor, from Digapahandi, and Nayak, additionally an actor, from the Korei seat.

Dhali has been fielded from the Jayadev seat, Mishra from Bhubaneswar-North, Das from Soro, Sethi from Khallikote and Kumar from Berhampur.

The BJP has additionally fielded its state president Manmohan Samal from the Chandabali section, a seat from the place he had misplaced in 2019 and in 2014. Chief of Opposition and MLA Jaynarayan Mishra will contest from the Sambalpur meeting seat.

To tackle CM Naveen Patnaik, the BJP has fielded Sisir Mishra as its candidate from Hinjili.

The state will vote for its 147-member meeting together with the Lok Sabha elections for the 21 seats concurrently. Elections will probably be held within the state in 4 phases, beginning on Could 13 and ending on June 1.

Within the 2019 meeting, the BJD received 112 seats, and Naveen Patnaik had develop into the chief minister for the fifth consecutive time period since 2000.

The BJP had received 23 seats, whereas the Congress received 9 seats. Among the many 21 Lok Sabha seats within the state, the BJD had received 12 seats, the BJP received 8 seats and the Congress 1 seat.