Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded MP Bhartruhari Mahtab from Cuttack Lok Sabha seat, Dr Rabindra Narayan Behera for Lok Sabha seat of Jajpur (SC) and Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi for Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat.
BJP Parliamentary Committee on Saturday announced candidates for these 3 remaining Lok Sabha seats. Earlier candidates were announced for 18 Lok Sabha seats.
Bhartruhari, who has won 6 times on a BJD ticket, is going to contest from BJP this time. On the other hand, BJD has fielded Santrupta Mishra for the Cuttack LS seat.
Besides, Kandhamal MP Dr. Achyuta Samanta is again contesting on a BJD to retain his spot while Sukanta Panigrahi will contest against him from BJP. Sukanta was a candidate in the 2014 election. In the last election, the BJP had selected M. A. Kharabela Swain.
In the Jajpur LS seat, BJD has again fielded MP Sharmistha Sethi while the BJP has changed its candidate. Last time, BJP’s Amiyakant Mallik got 4 lakh 42 thousand 327 votes against Sharmistha. In 2014 also Amiyakant was candidate from BJP. This time BJP has introduced, Dr. Rabindra Narayan Beher, a completely new face for the Jajpur Lok Sabha seat
List of BJP’s 21 Lok Sabha Candidates
- Bhubaneswar – Aparajita Sarangi
- Cuttack – Bhartruhari Mahatab
- Jagatsinghpur – Bibhuprasad Tarai
- Kendrapada – Baijayant Panda
- Jajpur – Dr. Rabindra Narayan Behera
- Balasore – Pratap Sarangi
- Bhadrak – Abhimanyu Sethi
- Mayurbhanj – Naba Charan Majhi
- Keonjhar – Ananta Nayak
- Puri – Dr. Sambit Patra
- Berhampur – Dr. Pradeep Panigrahi
- Aska – Anita Priyadarshini
- Kandhamal – Sukant Kumar Panigrahi
- Dhenkanal – Rudra Narayan Pani
- Sambalpur – Dharmendra Pradhan
- Bolangir – Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
- Sundargarh – Jual Oram
- Bargarh – Pradeep Purohit
- Nabarangpur – Balabhadra Majhi
- Koraput – Kaliram Majhi
- Kalahandi – Malvika Keshari Deo
