The campaigning for elections to the newly-created Baliguda and Champua NACs ended on Sunday evening. The elections will be held on January 19. In both the NACs, the last day of poll campaigning witnessed senior leaders of the ruling BJD and opposition Congress and BJP moving from door to door and canvassing voters to vote for their respective candidates.
In Baliguda NAC, while cine star and Rajya Sabha member Anubhab Mohanty campaigned for the BJD, Sritam Das on behalf of the BJP and PCC president Prasad Harichandan campaigned for their respective parties’ nominees. All the three parties have fielded candidates in all 13 wards of the NAC, which has a total of 12,000 voters Similarly, Energy Minister Pranab Prakash Das and Rural Development Minister Badri Narayan Patra moved in streets of the Champua NAC and tried to woo voters in favour of their party candidates.