Nearly 90 candidates, including former Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Anant Narayan Jena and eunuch Meneka, filed their nominations for the forthcoming January 8 corporation elections on Thursday.
While Jena filed his candidature for ward number 47 in BJD ticket, eunuch Meneka filed hers for ward number 15. Accompanied by eye-catching number of supporters, Meneka, so far the only eunuch candidate, filed the nomination. The noted BJD candidates include social activist linkan Subudhi for ward number 8 and Preetinanda Routray, daughter of Health and Family Welfare Minister Damodar Rout for ward number 6. They all will file nominations on Friday, on the last day of the filing of nominations.
“We have already finalised our candidates’ list for all 67 wards of the BMC. Many aspirants have submitted their nominations and the rest would file their candidatures on Friday,” said Panchyati Raj Minister and BMC election selection committee chief Kalpataru Das. Opposition Congress and BJP too claimed to have finalised their candidates’ list for all the BMC wards. The filing of nominations will culminate on Friday.