Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday announced the third list of Odisha Assembly candidates for the upcoming general elections 2024. BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik announced the names in a video message.
Here is BJD’s 3rd list of candidates for Odisha Assembly polls along with their respective Assembly constituency from where they would contest:
Barabati-Cuttack: Prakash Behera
Salipur: Prasant Behera
Jayadev: Naba Kishore Mallik
Rengali: Sudarshan Haripal
Rourkela: Sarada P Nayak
Biramitrapur: Rohit J Tirkey
Keonjhar: Meena Majhi
Rairangpur: Raisin Murmu
Balasore: Swarup Das
It is to be noted that earlier in the first list for Assembly candidates BJD had named 72 candidates while in the second list the party had named 27 MLA candidates. And today in the third list BJD named 9 candidates. Accordingly, BJD has so far announced names of 108 candidates for the Assembly seats in Odisha.
Besides the MLA candidates, the Biju Janata Dal has so far announced 20 names for the Lok Sabha polls in Odisha out of the 21 MP seats. Sans Balasore constituency, the party has already announced Lok Sabha MP candidates for other 20 constituencies.
