BJD Releases 5th List of Assembly Candidates, Swaps Rairakhol, Sambalpur Nominees

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) released its fifth list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in the state. This list included the name of BJD supremo and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik for the Kantabanji Assembly seat.

BJD chief Naveen Patnaik announced the fifth list of candidates through a video message on Wednesday.

In this list, the constituencies of Prasanna Acharya and Rohit Pujari have been swapped. Prasanna Acharya will now contest from Rairakhol, while Pujari will fight it out in Sambalpur.

Earlier, BJD had named Acharya from Sambalpur and it was reported that he was not happy over it as he was interested to contest from the Rairakhol Assembly constituency.

The candidates declared in the 5^th list of the BJD are:

Chitrokonda: Laxmipriya Nayak

Kantabanji: Naveen Patnaik

Padampur: Barsha Singh Bariha

Kuchinda: Rajendra Chatria

Deogarh: Arundhati Kumari Devi

Angul: Sanjukta Singh

Nimapada: Dilip Nayak

Sanakhemundi: Geetanjali Devi

Jeypore: Indira Nanda