Bhubaneshwar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Wednesday announced the third list of 27 candidates for the Assembly polls and five for the Lok Sabha polls in Odisha.
Three of the Assembly candidates are new faces. In Mahanga, MLA Pratap Jena’s son Ankit Pratap Jena got the party ticket as Jena is in hot waters after the court of judicial magistrate First Class (JMFC), Salipur, took cognisance of offences against him as an accused in the Mahanga double murder case.
BJD has so far announced its candidates for 20 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats and 99 out of 147 assembly seats in the state. The party has not yet announced its candidate for the Balasore Lok Sabha seat.
In Moroda, MLA Rajkishore Das’ wife Pritinanda Kanungo got the party ticket. In Badasahi assmebly constituency of Mayurbhanj, wife of former BJD MLA Ganeswar Patra would be the party candidate.
Dipali Das, who won the by-election to Jharsuguda Assembly constituency last year after the murder of her father Naba Das, who was the then health minister, was given a ticket for the same seat.
Similarly, Brajarajnagar MLA Alaka Mohanty, who had won the bypoll following the demise of her husband Kishore Mohanty in 2022, has been repeated by the party for the same Assembly constituency.
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