BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday announced candidates for one Lok Sabha seat and nine Assembly constituencies.
According to the list, Bhartruhari Mahtab was re-nominated for the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat.
Former MLA and former Minister Arabind Dhali replaced incumbent MLA and Minister Sashi Bhushan Behera in the Jayadev Assembly seat.
Begunia-Bolgarh MLA Prasant Jagadev was shifted to Chilika while Khordha MLA Rajendra Kumar Sahu replaced him in Begunia-Bolgarh.
The candidates of the other Assembly candidates are: Morada- Raj Kishore Dash (who recently resigned from the BJP), Basta- Nityananda Sahu, Deogarh- Romancha Ranjan Biswal, Bari- Sunanda Das (replacing sitting MLA Debashis Nayak) and Rairangpur-Basanti Marandi.
With this, the BJD has already announced candidates for 19 of the total 21 Lok Sabha and 137 of the 147 Assembly seats.