New Delhi: The Congress Monday released the first list of its candidates for six Lok Sabha and 36 Assembly constituencies in Odisha. The party has announced the names of candidates for the constituencies where elections will be held in the first and second phases. However, the party has not announced the names of all the seats that will go for polls in the first two phases.
Earlier, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik said the screening committee has shortlisted the names of candidates for 21 Lok Sabha and 147 Assembly constituencies and submitted the list to the party’s central election committee (CEC). He said the CEC has finalised the names of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 63 Assembly seats. The CEC will hold a meeting March 22 to finalise the names for 12 Lok Sabha and 84 Assembly seats in the state.
Candidates for 6 LS seats
- Kandhamal: Manoj Kumar Acharya
- Berhampur: Chandrasekhar Naidu
- Bargarh (ST): Pradeep Kumar Devta
- Sundargard (ST): George Tirkey
- Kalahandi: Bhakta Charan Das
- Nabarangpur (ST): Pradeep Majhi
Nominees for 36 Assembly seats
Constituency and candidates
- Padampur- Sataya Bhusan Sahu
- Bargarh- Nipan Das
- Attabira (SC)- Nihar Mahananda
- Biramitrapur (ST)- Rohit Joseph Tirkey
- Rajgangpur (ST)- Dr CS Rajan
- Birmaharajpur (SC)- Binod Kumar Patra
- Bolangir- Narsingha Mishra
- Nuapada- Ghasiram Majhi
- Khariar- Adhiraj Panigrahi
- Jharigam (ST)- Uldhar Math
- Nabarangpur (ST)- Sadan Nayak
- Dabugam (ST)- Bhujbal Majhi
- Lanjigarh (ST)- Shibaji Majhi
- Dharmgarh- Digambar Duna
- Baliguda (ST)- Siman Mallick
- Phulbani (ST)- Kishore Chandra Kanhar
- Kantamal- Prashant Sahoo
- Daspalla (SC)- Prasant Kumar Nayak
- Bhanjanagar- Sanjay Kumar Tripathy
- Polasara- Hari Charan Swain
- Kabisuryanagar- Bijay Kumar Sahoo
- Aska- Manoj Kumar Jena
- Sanakhemundi- Ramesh Chandra Jena
- Hinjili- Ram Krishna Panda
- Gopalpur- S Dharmaraj Reddy
- Berhampur- Lingraj Choudhury
- Digapahandi- Bismaya Mahapatra
- Chikiti- Subhash Chandra Rout
- Mohana (ST)- Dr Dasarathi Gamango
- Gunupur (ST)- Purushottam Gamango
- Bissam Cuttack (ST)- Neelmadhab Hikoka
- Jeypore- Tara Prasad Bahinipati
- Koraput (SC)- Krushna Chandra Kuldeep
- Pottangi (ST)- Ram Chandra Kadam
- Malkangiri (ST)- Mala Madhi
- Chitrakonda (ST)- Laxmipriya Nayak
