BHUBANESWAR: BJD’s first checklist of candidates introduced for 72 meeting seats on Wednesday has 13 debutants, together with 7 girls. A complete of 12 girls are within the first checklist for meeting seats.Whereas BJD modified candidates for 22 seats ostensibly to beat anti-incumbency, not less than seven MLAs, together with Padmini Dian (Kotpad), Nityananda Sahoo (Basta) and Sabitri Agarwalla (Patkura), had been denied tickets.Of the seven MLAs dropped this time, the relations of three have bagged the tickets. Sitting MLAs of Bhadrak and Bhandaripokhari, and Brahmagiri and Satyabadi have been swapped.Going forward with dynasty politics, senior BJP chief Bijoy Mohapatra’s son Aravind (Patkura), late BJD ex-MLA Maheswar Mohanty’s son Sunil (Puri), former meeting speaker late Surjya Narayan Patro’s son Biplab (Digapahandi), MLA Usha Devi’s son Chinmayananda Srirup Deb (Chikiti), MLA Sadasiva Pradhani’s spouse Kaushalya (Nabarangpur), MLA Purna Chandra Swain’s spouse Sanghamitra (Sorada), former BJD MLA Subash Gond’s spouse Nabina Nayak (Umerkote) and former BJD MLA Jogendra Behera’s son Nihar (Loisingha) are all set to make debut in electoral politics.Apart from, Lalita Naik, spouse of BJD chief Dushmant Naik, who had unsuccessfully contested from Bhawanipatna meeting constituency in 2019 has been picked by the ruling celebration from the identical seat this time. That is the primary time she’s going to contest meeting polls.Subhasini Jena, BJD girls’s wing’s working president and spouse of former BJD MP Rabindra Jena, will battle her maiden election from Basta constituency within the upcoming election by changing incumbent MLA Nityananda, who has been denied a ticket.Anusaya Majhi may even debut from Rayagada meeting seat for the BJD this time. BJD’s Lal Bihari Himirika had misplaced the seat to impartial candidate Makaranda Muduli in 2019. Physician Sanjay Das will contest from Bhandaripokhari for the primary time. Former chairperson of Dasarathpur block, Sujata Sahu, will attempt her luck for the primary time from Jajpur meeting constituency. BJD heavyweight and organisational secretary Pranab Prakash Das had been holding the Jajpur seat since 2009. The celebration picked Sujata for Jajpur after Pranab was nominated from Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat.The primary checklist additionally included two candidates — Srikant Sahu (Polasara) and Prafulla Samal (Bhadrak) — who had been mired in controversy just lately. In Could final yr, Sahu was eliminated as labour minister after a lady BJD employee made ‘sexual harassment’ allegations in opposition to Sahu, who has denied the fees. Samal, sitting MLA from Bhandaripokhari and now shifted to Bhadrak, was just lately quizzed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to an alleged rip-off in a non-public school in Bhadrak.
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