Marathon campaigning of the Congress for the ensuing Urban local Body (UlB) elections is in full swing in Gajapati district, said former Brahmapur lok Sabha member and former Central Minister Chandra Sekhar Sahu here on Wednesday.
He claimed that all the 16 wards of the Parlakhemindi Municipality and 13 wards of the Kasinagar NAC in Gajapati district would be captured by the Congress.
Sahu met local party leaders and workers and discussed as to how the party should fare well in the elections.
He also asserted that the Congress would win in most of the six NACs, one municipality and the Brahmapur Municipal Corporation that come under the Brahmapur lok Sabha constituency.
local Congress municipality election committee chairman K Surya Rao, A Jaymohana Rao, Nrusingh Charan Patnik, Ramesh Chudhuru, Abhimanyu Pnada, City Congress president Basanta Kumar Panda accompanied Sahu to different wards here.