BJD announces six more Lok Sabha candidates, switches former Mumbai police chief to Puri


Bhubaneswar, March 28 (IANS): Hours after releasing the first list of candidates for the nine parliamentary constituencies in Odisha, the ruling Biju Janata Dal announced candidates for six more Lok Sabha seats on Wednesday evening.

The party has fielded ex-IPS officer and Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Mohan Patnaik from the Puri Lok Sabha constituency, replacing veteran Supreme Court lawyer and sitting MP Pinaki Mishra.

Patnaik also hails from Puri district.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated its national spokesperson Sambit Patra for the Puri Lok Sabha seat. He had lost to BJD’s Mishra by a small margin in the 2019 elections.

Patnaik, who fought the 2019 elections from the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency on a BJD ticket, had lost to former IAS officer, Aparajita Sarangi of the BJP.

Meanwhile, Aditya Birla Group's former HR Director, Santrupt Misra, who had recently joined the party after leaving his three-decade-long corporate career, has been fielded from the Cuttack Lok Sabha constituency.

The party was looking for a new face for the seat after the six-time MP from the constituency, Bhartruhari Mahatab quit the party a few days back.

The BJD nominated Abinash Samal, the nephew of senior leader Sudhir Kumar Samal, for the Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, replacing Mahesh Sahoo.

The party had earlier on Wednesday renominated Sudhir Samal for the Dhenkanal Assembly seat.

Similarly, noted educationist Achyutananda Samant, and senior leaders Rajashree Mallick and Sarmistha Sethi have been renominated by the party for the tribal-dominated Kandhamal, Jagatsinghpur, and Jajpur parliamentary constituencies, respectively.

 

 

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: BJD announces six more Lok Sabha candidates, switches former Mumbai police chief to Puri



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.