The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Wednesday announced another list of party candidates for one Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats in the State for the upcoming elections.
According to the list, former PCC president and former Balangir MP Sarat Pattanayak will fight polls from the Sambalpur Parliamentary constituency.
PCC president Niranjan Patnaik was namedfor the Ghashipura Assembly seat (where he has already filed his nomination on Tuesday), Itish Pradhan for Bhubaneswar-North. Pradeep Sahoo was named for the Begunia seat after Prithvi Ballabh Patnaik refused to contest from there.
The other Assembly candidates are: Sambalpur- Dr Ashwini Pujahri, Cuttack Choudwar- Jagdish Mohanty, Cuttack Sadar- Abhisek Mahanda, Jaydev- Sukanta Tiadi Bhoi, Bhubaneswar Central- Rajib Patnaik and Chilika- Pradeep Swain.
