Odisha Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs Bhartruhari Mahtab and Sidhant Mohapatra on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forward of the upcoming common elections.
Bhartruhari Mahtab is without doubt one of the founding members of the BJD and a six-time Cuttack Lok Sabha MP.
Mahtab, 67, joined the BJP within the presence of senior leaders on the celebration headquarters.
Mahtab retained the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat, defeating the BJP’s Prakash Mishra with an enormous margin of votes within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He had contested the parliamentary elections on the BJD ticket.
BJD declares new record of six candidates
The ruling BJD has introduced candidates for six extra Lok Sabha seats.
The celebration has fielded ex-IPS officer and Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Mohan Patnaik from the Puri Lok Sabha constituency, changing veteran Supreme Court lawyer and sitting MP Pinaki Mishra.
Patnaik additionally hails from Puri district.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated its nationwide spokesperson Sambit Patra for the Puri Lok Sabha seat. He had misplaced to BJD’s Mishra by a small margin within the 2019 elections.
Patnaik, who fought the 2019 elections from the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency on a BJD ticket, had misplaced to former IAS officer, Aparajita Sarangi of the BJP.
Meanwhile, Aditya Birla Group’s former HR Director, Santrupt Misra, who had just lately joined the celebration after leaving his three-decade-long company profession, has been fielded from the Cuttack Lok Sabha constituency.
The celebration was on the lookout for a brand new face for the seat after the six-time MP from the constituency, Bhartruhari Mahatab stop the celebration a number of days again.
The BJD nominated Abinash Samal, the nephew of senior chief Sudhir Kumar Samal, for the Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, changing Mahesh Sahoo.
The celebration had earlier on Wednesday renominated Sudhir Samal for the Dhenkanal Assembly seat.
Similarly, famous educationist Achyutananda Samant, and senior leaders Rajashree Mallick and Sarmistha Sethi have been renominated by the celebration for the tribal-dominated Kandhamal, Jagatsinghpur, and Jajpur parliamentary constituencies, respectively.
With inputs from IANS
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