Odisha Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday introduced candidates for 18 out of the whole 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, in its fifth listing of 111 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024.
The saffron get together has dropped four sitting MPs. The nominees for Cuttack, Jajpur and Kandhamal Lok Sabha constituencies are but to be named by the get together.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will probably be contesting from Sambalpur seat.
The get together has fielded four ladies – Aparajita Sarangi (Bhubaneswar), Sangeeta Kumari Deo (Bolangir), Malvika Keshari Deo (Kalahandi) and Anita Subhadarshini (Aska).
The get together has nominated Pradeep Purohit rather than Pujari whereas Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan changed Nitish Gang Deb in Sambalpur.
Rairangpur MLA Naba Charan Majhi has changed Bisheswar Tudu in Mayurbhaj seat. Malvika Keshari Deo is made the brand new candidate rather than Basant Kumar Panda in Kalahandi LS seat.
The sitting MPs who’ve been retained are Jual Oram (Sundergarh), Pratap Chandra Sarangi (Balasore), Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (Bolangir) and Aparajita Sarangi (Bhubaneswar).
The different BJP candidates are Ananta Nayak (Keonjhar), Abhimanyu Sethi (Bhadrak), Rudra Pany (Dhenkanal), Baijayant Panda (Kendrapara), Balabhadra Majhi (Nabarangpur), Bibhu Tarai (Jagatsinghpur ), Sambit Patra (Puri), Pradeep Panigrahy (Berhampur) and Kaliram Majhi (Koraput).
The sitting MPs who have been denied BJP tickets this time are Suresh Pujari (Bargarh), Union Minister Bisheswar Tudu (Mayrbhanj), Nitish Gang Deb (Sambalpur) and Basant Panda (Kalahandi).
With inputs from PTI
