Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress Fields 2 Candidates For LS Polls, 8 For Assembly From Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Congress released a list of two candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections from Odisha and eight candidates for elections to the legislative assembly of the state. The party has fielded Nagendra Pradhan and Suresh Mohapatra to contest from Sambalpur and Cuttack LS seats respectively.

Who Will Be Fighting From Which Seat

According to the candidate list released by AICC's Central Election Committee, former MLA Debi Prasad Chand will contest from the Jaleswar assembly segment, while Monalisa Lenka will fight from the Balasore assembly seat. Pramod Kumar Hembram will contest from the Baripada assembly seat in place of Badal Hembram.

The party fielded Ajay Samal in the Barachana assembly constituency and Fakir Samal will contest from the Pallhara seat. MLA Md Moquim has been pitted from the Barabati-Cuttack constituency while Pratima Mallick will fight from the Jagatsinghpur assembly segment.

The party further replaced Manoj Kumar Pradhan from the Khandapara assembly constituency and fielded Baijayantimala Mohanty from the seat.

Assembly and Lok Sabha elections will be held simultaneously in Odisha in four phases, starting from Phase One on May 13th, Phase Two on May 20th, Phase Three on May 25th, and the final Phase on June 1st. The results will be announced on June 4.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) got the maximum number of seats (12), followed by the BJP (8) and the Congress just one.