Bhubaneswar. Congress on Sunday released the second list of 75 candidates for the Odisha Assembly elections. In this, former Chief Minister J.B. Patnaik’s son Prithvi Ballav Patnaik and former Union Minister K.P. The name of Singhdev’s relative Sushmita Singh Dev is included. Names of 9 women are also included in the second list of 75 candidates of Congress. All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K.C. Many new faces and some former MLAs have found place in the list signed by Venugopal.
In Odisha, the party has changed candidates on 3 assembly seats Talasara, Baliguda and Kabisuryanagar. Debendra Bhitaria has been given the ticket in Talsara in place of former Indian hockey captain Prabodh Tirkey, while Upendra Pradhan has been made the candidate in place of Surda Pradhan in Baliguda. Similarly, in Kavisuryanagar, Bipin Bihari Swain has been made the candidate in place of Chiranjeevi Bisoi.
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Tickets to sons and daughters of MLAs
In the Congress list, Dr. Debsmita Sharma, daughter of former Aul MLA Debendra Sharma, has been made a candidate in place of her father. Asit Patnaik, son of former MLA Jugal Patnaik, who recently resigned from the ruling Biju Janata Dal and joined the Congress, has been made the candidate from Bhadrak. The party has decided to cancel the tickets of two sitting MLAs, Suresh Routray and Adhiraj Panigrahi.
Voting will take place in May
In the Congress list, former Odisha Pradesh Congress (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik and Jaydev Jena have been made candidates from Bhandaripokhari and Anandpur assembly constituencies respectively. Former MLA Debashish Patnaik will contest from Banki assembly constituency. It is noteworthy that elections for 147 assembly seats of Odisha will be conducted in two phases in May. Here the first phase of voting will be held on 13th May and the second phase of voting will be held on 20th May.
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Tags: Congress Committee, Odisha assembly election 2024, Odisha politics
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 15, 2024, 24:36 IST