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BJD names candidates for 5 LS, 27 Assembly costituencies

April 04, 2024

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The Morning Standard

ADOPTING a cautious strategy of drop and repeat, the BJD on Wednesday announced candidates for five more Lok Sabha and 27 Assembly constituencies. Nine sitting MLAs were dropped from the party's second list which was declared by Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik, while eight legislators have been renominated from their present constituencies.

- BIJAY CHAKI

BJD names candidates for 5 LS, 27 Assembly costituencies

Manjulata Mandal who represented Bhadrak Lok Sabha seat is the only sitting MP to be re-nominated while the party fielded BJP leader Bhrugu Buxipatra from Berhampur parliamentary constituency hours after he resigned from the saffron party and joined the regional outfit. Outgoing MP and former union minister Chandra Sekhar Sahu was dropped.

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