Bharatiya Janata Party Names Candidates For Odisha’s 2 Lok Sabha, 9 Assembly Seats

Bharatiya Janata Party Names Candidates For Odisha’s 2 Lok Sabha, 9 Assembly Seats

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its list of candidates for two Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats in Odisha. Kharavela Swain, who rejoined the party on Monday, will contest from the Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat, while Prakash Mishra will fight from the Cuttack parliamentary constituency. Swain, president of the Utkal Bharat, formally joined the BJP here on Monday. Swain was elected to the Lok Sabha thrice as a BJP member.

Former Odisha DGP and former CRPF DGP, Prakash Mishra, had joined the BJP on Sunday. Among the nine Assembly seats declared on Monday, Rishabh Nanda, son of BJD’s Rajya Sabha member Prashant Nanda, will fight from the Begunia assembly segment on a BJP ticket. Rishabh has recently joined the BJP. The saffron party has, so far, declared candidates for 17 Lok Sabha seats and 130 Assembly segments. (IANS)

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