The Congress on Sunday released its candidates’ list for nine more Assembly seats with making last-minute change of candidates for two constituencies.
The party fielded Debi Prasad Mallick for the Tirtol Assembly seat in place of Bibhu Prasad Tarai, who is now the BJP candidate for Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha constituency. Besides, the party replaced woman candidate Smruti Rekha Pahi with Kisan Panda for the Dharmasala seat
As known earlier, PCC president Niranjan Patnaik, who has already filed his nomination papers for the Ghasipura constituency, was also announced as the candidate for Bhandaripokhari.
The other six candidates are: Nalinikant Mohanty-Bhadrak, Sitakant Mohapatra-Barachana, Rabindranath
Kar-Salepur, Bibhransu Sekhar Lenka-Mahakalpada, Lalatendu Mohapatra-Balikuda-Erasama and Satyabrat Patra-Nimapara.