The Biju Janta Dal (BJD) fielded 4 ladies as candidates within the Odisha Meeting elections as an alternative of their husbands who had both gained or come second within the final state elections.
The choice was taken by BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who on Wednesday introduced the candidates checklist for the meeting elections.
Sadasiva Pradhani, who resigned from a authorities job and have become a BJD MLA from Nabarangpur in 2019, was denied a ticket by his social gathering. He was changed by his spouse Kausalya Pradhani.
The Odisha ruling social gathering additionally denied a celebration ticket to three-time MLA Purna Chandra Swain who was elected to the meeting in 2009, 2014 and 2019. His spouse Sanghamitra Swain changed him.
The BJD had fielded Subhas Gond as its candidate within the Umerkote meeting phase in 2019. Nevertheless, he was defeated by BJP’s Nityananda Gond.
This 12 months, the BJD didn’t allot a ticket to Subhas, however nominated his spouse Nabina Nayak.
Patnaik additionally gave a BJD ticket to Subhashini Jena to contest from the Basta meeting seat in Balasore district. Subhasini is the spouse of former Balasore MP Rabindra, who was elected in 2014. He misplaced the Lok Sabha Polls in 2019 to BJP’s Pratap Sarangi.
Within the candidate checklist for the Lok Sabha, the BJD president has re-nominated Kausalya Hikaka for the Koraput constituency. Although she had misplaced the polls to Congress candidate Saptagiri Ulaka by a slender margin of three,613 votes within the 2019 elections, Kausalya has been re-nominated by Patnaik.
She is the spouse of former MP Jhina Hikaka, who was elected from Koraput LS seat in 2014. The primary checklist of the BJD’s meeting candidates contains 12 ladies. The ladies candidates additionally embrace a speaker, two ministers and two sitting MLAs.
This aside, Patnaik has nominated the sons of two former audio system – SN Patro and Maheswar Mohanty who died final 12 months.
Whereas SN Patro’s son Biplab has been nominated from the Digapandi meeting seat, Maheswar Mohanty’s son Sunil will contest from Puri.
Chikiti MLA and minister Usha Devi’s son Chinmayananda Srirup Deb has been nominated to contest the meeting elections from his mom’s seat.
Usha Devi was elected to the meeting from Chikiti seat in 1990, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019. She has been a minister within the Naveen Patnaik authorities since 2011.
(With PTI inputs)
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