Odisha Assembly polls: BJP names candidates for 112 seats

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The BJP Tuesday named 112 candidates for the Odisha Assembly polls which will be held alongside the Lok Sabha elections.

The party re-nominated 21 of its 22 sitting MLAs in the state. Mohapatra’s niece Upasana Mohapatra has got the ticket from the Brahmagiri Assembly seat. The lone legislator who has been denied the BJP ticket was Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra from Brahmagiri in Puri district. Mohapatra’s niece Upasana Mohapatra has got the ticket from the Brahmagiri Assembly seat.

There are eight women candidates.

As per the list, BJP state president Manmohan Samal will contest from the Chandbali Assembly segment in Bhadrak district while senior party leader and sitting MP from Bargarh Suresh Pujari will contest from Brajarajnagar Assembly seat. Pujari was denied the party ticket for contesting the Lok Sabha polls this time.

Leader of Opposition and MLA Jaynarayan Mishra will contest from his traditional Sambalpur Assembly seat.

Three turncoats from BJD, Arabinda Dhali, Akash Das Nayak and Priyadarshi Mishra were given BJP tickets. Arabinda Dhali will fight from the Jayadev Assembly segment in Khurda district.

While actor-turned-politician Akash Das Nayak, has been given the ticket for Korei Assembly segment in Jajpur district, former BJD MLA Priyadarshi Mishra will fight the polls from Bhubaneswar North seat.

While the saffron party’s youth leader Tankadhar Tripathy will fight the Assembly polls from Jharsuguda, MLA Kusum Tete will contest from Sundargarh Assembly seat and Biswaranjan Badajena from Jatni.

Jagannath Pradhan has been fielded from Bhubaneswar Central, Babu Singh from Bhubaneswar Ekamra and Prithiviraj Harichandan from Chilika Assembly seat.

Here is the full list of 112 candidates announced by the BJP for Odisha Assembly elections.

1. Gunupur: Trinath Gomanga
2. Koraput: Raghuram Machha
3. Pottangi: Chaitanya Hantali
4. Malkangiri: Narsingh Madkami
5. Bhatli: Irasis Acharya
6. Brajrajnagar: Suresh Pujari
7. Jharsuguda: Tankadhar Tripathy
8. Talsara: Bhabani Shankar Bhoi
9. Sundargarh: Kusum Tete
10. Biramitrapur: Shankar Oram
11. Raghunathpali: Durga Charan Tanti
12. Rajgangapur: Narsingha Minz
13. Bonai: Sebati Nayak
14. Kuchinda: Rabi Narayan Naik
15. Rengali: Nauri Nayak
16. Sambalpur: Jay Narayan Mishra
17. Rairakhol: Debendra Mohapatra
18. Deogarh: Subash Ch. Panigrahi
19. Anandapur: Alok Sethi
20. Keonjar: Mohan Majhi
21. Jashipur (ST) – Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia
22. Udala (ST) – Bhaskar Madhei
23. Badasahi (SC) – Sanatan Bijuli
24. Baripada (ST) – Prakash Soren
25. Morada – Krushna Chandra Mohapatra
26. Jaleswar – Braja Pradhan
27. Balasore – Manas Kumar Dutta
28. Remuna (SC) – Gobinda Chandra Das
29. Soro (SC) – Rajendra Das
30. Simulia – Padmalochan Panda
31. Bhadrak – Sitansu Sekhar Mohapatra
32. Dhamnagar (SC) – Suryabanshi Suraj
33. Chandabali – Manmohan Samal
34. Binjharpur (SC) – Babita Mallick
35. Barchana – Amar Kumar Nayak
36. Dharamsala: Smruti Rekha Pahl
37. Jajpur: Gautam Ray
38. Korei: Akash Das Nayak
39. Sukinda: Pradeep Bala Samantha
40. Dhenkanal: Krushna Ch. Patra
41. Kamakshyanagar: Satrughan Jena
42. Parjanga: Bibuti Bhusan Pradhan
43. Pallahara: Ashok Mohanty
44. Talcher: Kalandi Ch. Samal
45. Angul: Pratap Ch. Pradhan
46. Chhendipada: Agasti Behera
47. Athamallik: Sanjeeb Sahoo
48. Biramaharajpur: Raghunath Jagdala
49. Sonepur: Pramod Mahapatra
50. Loisingha: Mukesh Mahaling
51. Loisingha (SC) – Mukesh Mahaling
52. Patnagarh – Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo
53. Bargarh: Ashwini Sarangi
54. Bijepur: Sanath Gartia
55. Padampur: Gobardhan Bhoy
56. Attabira: Nihar Ranjan Mahananda
57. Bolangir – Gopalji Panigrahi
58. Titlagarh – Naveen Jain
59. Kantabanji – Laxman Bag
60. Nuapada – Abhinandan Kumar Panda
61. Khariar – Hitesh Kumar Bagartii
62. Umarkote (ST) – Nityananda Gond
63. Nabarangpur (ST) – Gouri Sankar Majhi
64. Lanjigarh (ST) – Ramesh Chandra Majhi
65. Junagarh – Manoj Kumar Meher
66. Dharmgarh – Sudhir Pattjoshi
67. Bhawanipatna (SC) – Pradipta Kumar Naik
68. Narla – Aniruddha Padhan
69. Baliguda (ST) – Kalpana Kumari Kanhar
70. Udayagiri (ST) – Managobinda Pradhan
71. Phulbani: Uma Ch. Mallick
72. Kantamal: Kanhai Ch. Danga
73. Boudh: Saroj Pradhan
74. Baramba: Sambit Tripathy
75. Banki: Tusharkant Chakrabarti
76. Athagarh: Abhay Kumar Barik
77. Choudwar-Cuttack: Nayan Kishore Mohanty
78. Niali: Chabi Mallick
79. Cuttack-Sadar: Prakash Ch. Sethi
80. Mahanga: Sumant Ghadei
81. Patkura: Tejeswar Parida
82. Aul: Krushna Ch Panda
83. Mahakalpada: Durga Prasanna Nayak
84. Paradeep: Sampad Ku Swain
85. Tirtol: Raj Kishore Behera
86. Nimapara – Pravati Parida
87. Puri – Jayanta Kumar Sarangi
88. Brahmagiri – Upasana Mohapatra
89. Satyabadi – Om Prakash Mishra
90. Pipili – Ashrit Kumar Pattnayak86.  Jayadev (SC) – Arabinda Dhali
91. Bhubaneswar Central – Jagannath Pradhan
92. Bhubaneswar North – Priyadarshi Mishra
93. Ekamra-Bhubaneswar – Babu Singh
94. Jatani – Biswaranjan Badajena
95. Chilika – Prithiviraj Harichandan
96. Ranpur – Tapas Ranjan Martha
97. Khandapada – Dusmanta Swain
98. Daspalla (SC) – Raghav Mallick
99. Nayagarh – Pratyusha Rajeswari Singh
100. Bhanjanagar – Pradyumna Kumar Nayak
101. Polasara – Gokula Nanda Mallick
102. Kabisuryanagar – Pratap Chandra Nayak
103. Khallikote (SC) – Purna Chandra Sethi
104. Chhatrapur (SC) – Krushna Chandra Nayak
105. Aska – Saroj Kumar Padhi
106. Surada – Nilamani Bisoyi
107. Hinjili – Sisir Mishra
108. Gopalpur – Bibhuti Bhusan Jena
109. Berhampur – K. Anil Kumar
110. Digaphandi – Sidhant Mohapatra
111. Chikiti: Manojaranjan Dyan Samantaray
112. Paralekhemundi: K Narayan Rao

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