Hours after the BJD announced its first list of candidates for nine Lok Sabha and 54 Assembly seats, the Congress too announced its first list of candidates late on Monday night.
According to the list, the Congress has named six Lok Sabha and 36 Assembly candidates. The Loksabha candidates are Pradeep Kumar Debata (Bargarh), George Tirkey (Sundargarh), Pradeep Majhi (Nabarangpur), Bhakta Charan Das (Kalahandi), Manoj Kumar Acharya (Kandhamal) and V Chandrasekhar Naidu (Berhampur).
Similarly, the Assembly candidates include Satya Bhusan Sahu (Padampur), Nipan Das (Bargarh), Nihar Mahananda (Attabira), Rohit Joseph Tirkey(Birmitrapur), CS Rajan (Rajgangpur),
Binod Kumar Patra (Birmaharajpur), Narasingha Mishra (Bolangir), Ghasiram Majhi (Nuapada), Adhiraj Panigrahi (Khariar), Uldhar Majhi (Jharigam), Sadam Nayak (Nabarangpur) and Bhujbal Majhi (Dabugam), Siman Mallick (Baliguda), Shibaji Majhi (Lanjigarh), Digambar Duria (Dharamgarh), Siman Mallick (Baliguda), Kishore Chandra Kanhar (Phulbani), Prashant Sahoo (Kantamal), Prasant Kumar Nayak (Daspalla), Sanjay Kumar Tripathy (Bhanjanagar), Hari Charan Swain (Polasara), Bijay Kumar Sahoo (Kabisuryanagar), Manoj Kumar Jena (Aska), Ramesh Chandra Jena(Sanakhemundi), Rama Krishna Panda (Hinjili), S Dharmaraj Reddy(Gopalpur), Lingaraj Choudhury (Berhampur), Bismaya Mahapatra (Digapahandi), Subash Chandra Rout (Chikiti), Dasarathi Gamango (Mohana) and Purushottam Gamango (Gunupur), Neelmadhab Hikaka (Bissam Cuttack), Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Jeypore), Krushna Chandra Kuldeep (Koraput), Ram Chandra Kadam (Pottangi), Mala Madhi (Malkangiri) and Laxmipriya Nayak (Chitrakonda).