The State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday released a notification for six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly seats for the scheduled third-phase elections in the State.
As per the notification, the nomination started from the day till April 4. The nomination will be verified on April 5 and the candidates can withdraw their nomination by April 8. The third phase elections will be held on April 23.
In this phase, the Lok Sabha constituencies of Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Puri and Bhubaneswar will go to polls.
The elections will be conducted simultaneously for 42 Assembly seats coming under these Lok Sabha constituencies.
On Wednesday, the Electoral Officers rejected the nominations of eight candidates from five Lok Sabha constituencies and 38 candidates from 35 Assembly constituencies going to polls in the second phase of elections on April 18.
Parliamentary and Assembly segments under Balangir, Bargarh, Kandhamal, Aska and Sundargarh Lok Sabha constituencies will go to polls during the second phase of elections on April 18.
“A total of 45 candidates had filed nominations for five Lok Sabha seats in the State. Out of them, nominations of eight candidates were rejected for various reasons,” informed CEO Surendra Kumar.
Similarly, out of 299 applications from 35 Assembly constituencies, 38 nominations were rejected and 261 were found to be valid, added the CEO. The last date of withdrawal of nomination papers for second phase is March 29.