The BJD and the BJP on Friday released lists of their star campaigners for the upcoming by-polls to be held for Baleswar and Tirtol Assembly seats on November 3.
While actor-turned-politician Anubhav Mohanty has been exempted from campaigning for the BJD candidates this time, no Union Minister belonging to any other State has been included in the BJP’s 30-member list. While Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik tops the BJD list, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Pratap Sarangi figure as prominent ones in the BJP list.
Notably, the BJD has nominated Swarup Kumar Das for Baleswar by-poll and Bijaya Shankar Das for Tirtol, while the BJP has fielded Manas Kumar Dutta and Raj Kishore Behera for the two seats, respectively.Other BJD campaigners are Pranab Prakash Das, Ananta Das, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Debi Prasad Mishra, Pramila Mallick, Sanjay Das Burma, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Arun Kumar Sahoo, Pratap Jena, Naba Kishore Das, Susanta Singh, Rajashree Mallick, Ranendra Pratap Swain, Pratap Keshari Deb, Niranjan Pujari, Samir Ranjan Dash, Premananda Nayak, Debasish Samantaray, Dibya Shankar Mishra, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Rabindra Kumar Jena, Prasanta Kumar Muduli, Raghunandan Das, Sudam Marndi, Jiban Pradip Das, Muzibulla Khan, Akash Das Nayak, Arindam Ray and Satyabrata (Kuna) Tripathy. Other BJP star campaigners are Sameer Mohanty, Jual Oram, Pradipta Kumar Nayak, Saudan Singh, Arun Singh, Baijayanta Panda, Suresh Pujari, Basanta Kumar Panda, KV Singh Deo, Manmohan Samal, Bishweswar Tudu, Dr Sambit Patra, Aparajita Sarangi, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Bishnu Sethi, Bijaya Mohapatra, Kharavela Swain, Prakash Mishra, Mohan Charan Majhi, Sukanta Kumar Nayak, Raghunath Mohanty, Padmalochan Panda, Jayanarayan Mohanty, Prithviraj Harichandan, Golak Prasad Mohapatra, Lekhasri Samantasinghar, Bhrugu Baxipatra and Bibhu Prasad Tarai.