- Fields BJP Turncoat Lekhasri from Balasore LS
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today released one more list of Assembly and Lok Sabha candidates.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced the names of 9 MLA candidates and one MP candidate.
Lekhasri Samantsinghar, who recently switched from the BJP to the BJD, has been declared as the Lok Sabha candidate for Balasore.
With this announcement, the BJD has finalized its candidates for all 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Assembly candidates list
- Laxmipur: Prabhu Jani
- Paradip: Gitanjali Routray
- Sambalpur: Prasanna Acharya
- Rairakhol: Rohit Pujari
- Telkoi : Madhab Sardar
- Talcher: Braja Pradhan
- Baliguda: Chakramani Kanhar
- BBSR-Central: Ananta Narayan Jena
- Narla: Manorama Mohanty
