Odisha: BJP releases second list of candidates for Assembly elections

Bhubaneswar, April 16 (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on Tuesday launched the second checklist of candidates for 21 extra meeting constituencies of the state together with two modifications in its earlier checklist of candidates launched on April 2.

Following the Delhi excessive courtroom’s keep order on former union minister Dilip Ray’s conviction, BJP has fielded the senior chief from the Rourkela meeting section underneath the Sundargarh parliamentary constituency.

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom had just lately stayed the conviction of Ray who was earlier sentenced to bear three years imprisonment in reference to a coal rip-off case.

The celebration has modified candidates for 2 meeting constituencies, Ranpur underneath the Puri Parliamentary constituency and Pottangi underneath the Koraput Lok Sabha constituency.

The BJP has named senior celebration chief Surama Padhy instead of Tapas Ranjan Martha from Ranpur meeting constituency in Nayagarh district.

Equally, Chaitanya Nandibali has been named the celebration’s candidate from the Pottangi Vidhan Sabha seat instead of Chaitanya Hantal.

The celebration has additionally nominated Jagannath Nundruka, who had just lately joined BJP after quitting the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), from Bisam Cuttack seat underneath Koraput Lok sabha constituency.

Nundruka, the previous shut aide of sitting MLA and BJD chief Jagannath Saraka, has changed Siba Sankar Ulaka who was the BJP nominee for the meeting seat within the 2019 basic elections.

Equally, the BJP has given tickets to a number of different leaders who just lately joined the celebration after leaving BJD. The celebration has fielded ex-BJD leaders Amarendra Das, Dambaru Sisa, Bhadav Hansda and Kailash Kulesika from Jagatsinghpur, Chitrakonda, Saraskana and Laxmipur meeting constituencies within the state.

The celebration has fielded Satya Sarathi Mohanty, and Somnath Pujari from Balikuda-Erasama and Dabugam meeting seats respectively.

The celebration had earlier named candidates for 112 constituencies out of the overall 147 Vidhan Sabha seats within the state.