Bhubaneswar, March 30: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released the second list of three Lok Sabha candidates from Odisha.
While six-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab will contest from Cuttack Lok Sabha constituency, Sukanta Kumar Panigrahi will contest from Kandhamal and Rabindra Narayan Behera from Jajpur.
On March 24, the BJP had announced the first list of candidates for 18 of the State’s 21 Lok Sabha seats.
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been fielded from the prestigious Sambalpur seat whole party’s national vice-president Baijayant Baijayant Panda has been fielded from Kendrapara while MP Aparajita Sarangi has been fielded from Bhubaneswar, party’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra has been named as a candidate for the prestigious Puri seat.
The sitting MPs who have been retained are Jual Oram (Sundergarh), Pratap Chandra Sarangi (Balasore), Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo (Bolangir) and Aparajita Sarangi (Bhubaneswar).
The other BJP candidates are Ananta Nayak (Keonjhar), Abhimanyu Sethi (Bhadrak), Rudra Pany (Dhenkanal), Baijayant Panda (Kendrapara), Balabhadra Majhi (Nabarangpur), Bibhu Tarai (Jagatsinghpur), Sambit Patra (Puri), Pradeep Panigrahy (Berhampur) and Kaliram Majhi (Koraput).
