As per the notification, former Union Minister Srikant Jena will contest from Balasore while Yasir Nawaz has been named as party candidate for the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency.
List of nine Lok Sabha candidates is as follows:
- Keonjhar(ST)- Mohan Hembram
- Balasore- Srikant Kumar Jena
- Bhadrak(SC)- Anant Kumar Sethi
- Jajpur(SC)- Anchal Das
- Dhenkanal- Sashmita Behera
- Kendrapara – Sidharth Swarup Das
- Jagatsinghpur – Rabindra Kumar Sethi
- Puri- Sucharita Mohanty
- Bhubaneswar- Yasir Nawaz
Earlier on April 2, the grand old party announced the first list of candidates for eight Lok Sabha and 49 assembly seats in Odisha.
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Odisha will vote in the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly polls, which are being held simultaneously, in four phases. The polling will be held on May 13, 20, 25 and June 1.
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