New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday released the list of candidates for eight Lok Sabha and 49 Assembly seats for simultaneous polls in Odisha.
Apart from Odisha, the Congress released its list of candidates for three other states including five seats in Andhra Pradesh, three in Bihar and one in West Bengal.
Here is the list of eight candidates announced by Congress for Lok Sabha polls in Odisha:
- Bargarh – Sanjay Bhoi
- Bolangir- Manoj Mishra
- Sundargarh – Janardan Dehury
- Berhampur- Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik
- Koraput- Saptagiri Ulaka
- Kalahandi – Draupadi Majhi
- Nabarangpur – Bhujabal Majhi
- Kandhamal- Amir Chand Nayak
Among the Assembly poll nominees, it named Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattnatak as the candidate for Nuapada, while the party’s campaign committee chairman and former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das will contest from the Narla seat in Kalahandi district.
Das’ son Sagar Charan has been fielded for the Bhawanipatna assembly segment and bureaucrat-turned-politician Bijay Patnaik from the Parlakehmundi seat in Gajapati district, according to the list.
Here is the list of 49 candidates announced by Congress for Assembly polls in Odisha:
- Padampur – Tankadhar Sahu
- Bijepur – Kishor Dafadar
- Bargarh – Nipon Kumar Dash
- Bhatli – Brahma Mahakud
- Brajarajnagar – Kishore Chandra Patel
- Talsara (ST) – Prabodh Tirkey
- Sundargarh (ST) – Sudharani Raudia
- Biramitrapur – Left to JMM
- Raghunathpali (SC) – Gopal Das
- Rourkela – Birendra Nath Pattnaik
- Rajgangpur (ST) – CS Raazen Ekka
- Bonai (ST) – Left to CPI-M
- Loisingha (SC) – Om Prakash Kumbhar
- Nuapada – Sarat Pattanayak
- Umarkote (ST) – Sanraj Gond
- Jharigam (ST) – Harabati Gond
- Nabarangpur (ST) – Dilip Pradhan
- Patnagarh – Anil Meher
- Bolangir – Samarendra Mishra
- Kantabanji – Santosh Singh Saluja
- Dabugam (ST) –Lipika Majhi
- Lanjigarh (ST) – Balabhadra Majhi
- Junagarh – Tuleswar Naik
- Dharamgarh – Rasmirekha Rout
- Phulbani (ST) – Prativa Kanhar
- Kantamal – Manoj Kumar Acharya
- Boudh- Naba Kumar Mishra
- Sanakhemundi- Ramesh Chandra Jena
- Chikiti- Ravindra Nath Dyan Samantaray
- Mohana –Dasarathi Gomango
- Paralakhemundi- Bijay Patnaik
- Banjanagar- Prasanta Bisoyi
- Bhawanipatna (SC) – Sagar Charan Das
- Narla – Bhakta Charan Das
- Baliguda (ST) – Surada Pradhan
- Udayagiri (ST) – Prafulla Chandra Pradhan
- Polasara- Agasti Barada
- Kabisuryanagar- Chiranjeevi Bisoyi
- Surada- Harikrishna Rath
- 40 Gunupur- Satyajeet Samango
- Koraput- Krushna Chandra Kuldeep
- Pottangi- Ramchandra Kadam
- Malkangiri- Mala Madhi
- Chitrakonda- Mangu Khila
- Bissam Cuttack- Nilamadhab Hikaka
- Rayagada- Kadraka Allapaswamy
- Laxmipur- Pabitra Saunta
- Kotpad- Anama Dian
- Jeypore- Tara Prasad Bahinipati
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