The Freethought Pary India (FPI) will contest the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections this time and has released its first list of candidates.
While B Ramchandra CST Voltaire will contest from Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Seat, Dr Bijayananda Kar will stand from “Bhubaneswar North” Assembly seat, Gandharb Nayak from the Jayadev (SC) Reserved seat, Swapna Bijayini from Ekamra Bhubaneswar seat, Roji Anupama and Bijay Kumar Swain from Bhubaneswar Central and Begunia seat respectively. Similarly, Dr Bhimsen Behera is to contest from Jajpur LS seat .
The party will not make a song and dance regarding contesting the elections and hence, will not seek any donations or hold any public meeting. It will have no booth level committee. It will bank upon social media and mainstream media to take its points of view to the voters, said FPI general secretary B Ramchandra CST Voltaire. He added that the party will fight polls on issues like eliminating caste system, propagation of one-child norm, English medium education and dowry less love marriages, etc.