New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The BJP Tuesday named 112 candidates for the Odisha Assembly polls which will be held alongside the Lok Sabha elections.
The party re-nominated 21 of its 22 sitting MLAs in the state. Mohapatra’s niece Upasana Mohapatra has got the ticket from the Brahmagiri Assembly seat. The lone legislator who has been denied the BJP ticket was Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra from Brahmagiri in Puri district. Mohapatra’s niece Upasana Mohapatra has got the ticket from the Brahmagiri Assembly seat.
There are eight women candidates.
As per the list, BJP state president Manmohan Samal will contest from the Chandbali Assembly segment in Bhadrak district while senior party leader and sitting MP from Bargarh Suresh Pujari will contest from Brajarajnagar Assembly seat. Pujari was denied the party ticket for contesting the Lok Sabha polls this time.
Leader of Opposition and MLA Jaynarayan Mishra will contest from his traditional Sambalpur Assembly seat.
Three turncoats from BJD, Arabinda Dhali, Akash Das Nayak and Priyadarshi Mishra were given BJP tickets. Arabinda Dhali will fight from the Jayadev Assembly segment in Khurda district.
While actor-turned-politician Akash Das Nayak, has been given the ticket for Korei Assembly segment in Jajpur district, former BJD MLA Priyadarshi Mishra will fight the polls from Bhubaneswar North seat.
While the saffron party’s youth leader Tankadhar Tripathy will fight the Assembly polls from Jharsuguda, MLA Kusum Tete will contest from Sundargarh Assembly seat and Biswaranjan Badajena from Jatni.
Jagannath Pradhan has been fielded from Bhubaneswar Central, Babu Singh from Bhubaneswar Ekamra and Prithiviraj Harichandan from Chilika Assembly seat.
Here is the full list of 112 candidates announced by the BJP for Odisha Assembly elections.
- Gunupur: Trinath Gomanga
- Koraput: Raghuram Machha
- Pottangi: Chaitanya Hantali
- Malkangiri: Narsingh Madkami
- Bhatli: Irasis Acharya
- Brajrajnagar: Suresh Pujari
- Jharsuguda: Tankadhar Tripathy
- Talsara: Bhabani Shankar Bhoi
- Sundargarh: Kusum Tete
- Biramitrapur: Shankar Oram
- Raghunathpali: Durga Charan Tanti
- Rajgangapur: Narsingha Minz
- Bonai: Sebati Nayak
- Kuchinda: Rabi Narayan Naik
- Rengali: Nauri Nayak
- Sambalpur: Jay Narayan Mishra
- Rairakhol: Debendra Mohapatra
- Deogarh: Subash Ch. Panigrahi
- Anandapur: Alok Sethi
- Keonjar: Mohan Majhi
- Jashipur (ST) – Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia
- Udala (ST) – Bhaskar Madhei
- Badasahi (SC) – Sanatan Bijuli
- Baripada (ST) – Prakash Soren
- Morada – Krushna Chandra Mohapatra
- Jaleswar – Braja Pradhan
- Balasore – Manas Kumar Dutta
- Remuna (SC) – Gobinda Chandra Das
- Soro (SC) – Rajendra Das
- Simulia – Padmalochan Panda
- Bhadrak – Sitansu Sekhar Mohapatra
- Dhamnagar (SC) – Suryabanshi Suraj
- Chandabali – Manmohan Samal
- Binjharpur (SC) – Babita Mallick
- Barchana – Amar Kumar Nayak
- Dharamsala: Smruti Rekha Pahl
- Jajpur: Gautam Ray
- Korei: Akash Das Nayak
- Sukinda: Pradeep Bala Samantha
- Dhenkanal: Krushna Ch. Patra
- Kamakshyanagar: Satrughan Jena
- Parjanga: Bibuti Bhusan Pradhan
- Pallahara: Ashok Mohanty
- Talcher: Kalandi Ch. Samal
- Angul: Pratap Ch. Pradhan
- Chhendipada: Agasti Behera
- Athamallik: Sanjeeb Sahoo
- Biramaharajpur: Raghunath Jagdala
- Sonepur: Pramod Mahapatra
- Loisingha: Mukesh Mahaling
- Loisingha (SC) – Mukesh Mahaling
- Patnagarh – Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo
- Bargarh: Ashwini Sarangi
- Bijepur: Sanath Gartia
- Padampur: Gobardhan Bhoy
- Attabira: Nihar Ranjan Mahananda
- Bolangir – Gopalji Panigrahi
- Titlagarh – Naveen Jain
- Kantabanji – Laxman Bag
- Nuapada – Abhinandan Kumar Panda
- Khariar – Hitesh Kumar Bagartii
- Umarkote (ST) – Nityananda Gond
- Nabarangpur (ST) – Gouri Sankar Majhi
- Lanjigarh (ST) – Ramesh Chandra Majhi
- Junagarh – Manoj Kumar Meher
- Dharmgarh – Sudhir Pattjoshi
- Bhawanipatna (SC) – Pradipta Kumar Naik
- Narla – Aniruddha Padhan
- Baliguda (ST) – Kalpana Kumari Kanhar
- Udayagiri (ST) – Managobinda Pradhan
- Phulbani: Uma Ch. Mallick
- Kantamal: Kanhai Ch. Danga
- Boudh: Saroj Pradhan
- Baramba: Sambit Tripathy
- Banki: Tusharkant Chakrabarti
- Athagarh: Abhay Kumar Barik
- Choudwar-Cuttack: Nayan Kishore Mohanty
- Niali: Chabi Mallick
- Cuttack-Sadar: Prakash Ch. Sethi
- Mahanga: Sumant Ghadei
- Patkura: Tejeswar Parida
- Aul: Krushna Ch Panda
- Mahakalpada: Durga Prasanna Nayak
- Paradeep: Sampad Ku Swain
- Tirtol: Raj Kishore Behera
- Nimapara – Pravati Parida
- Puri – Jayanta Kumar Sarangi
- Brahmagiri – Upasana Mohapatra
- Satyabadi – Om Prakash Mishra
- Pipili – Ashrit Kumar Pattnayak86. Jayadev (SC) – Arabinda Dhali
- Bhubaneswar Central – Jagannath Pradhan
- Bhubaneswar North – Priyadarshi Mishra
- Ekamra-Bhubaneswar – Babu Singh
- Jatani – Biswaranjan Badajena
- Chilika – Prithiviraj Harichandan
- Ranpur – Tapas Ranjan Martha
- Khandapada – Dusmanta Swain
- Daspalla (SC) – Raghav Mallick
- Nayagarh – Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh
- Bhanjanagar – Pradyumna Kumar Nayak
- Polasara – Gokula Nanda Mallick
- Kabisuryanagar – Pratap Chandra Nayak
- Khallikote (SC) – Purna Chandra Sethi
- Chhatrapur (SC) – Krushna Chandra Nayak
- Aska – Saroj Kumar Padhi
- Surada – Nilamani Bisoyi
- Hinjili – Sisir Mishra
- Gopalpur – Bibhuti Bhusan Jena
- Berhampur – K. Anil Kumar
- Digaphandi – Sidhant Mohapatra
- Chikiti: Manojaranjan Dyan Samantaray
- Paralekhemundi: K Narayan Rao
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