large numbers of BJP leaders and workers of Ganjam block held a meeting at the Jhadeswar Temple, 30 km from here, on Sunday to decide battle plans and prepare a list of prospective candidates for the upcoming Panchayat elections.
The meeting, among other things, unanimously resolved to field Nilima Badtiya from Zone No14 and Rashmirani Mahapatra from Zone 15 of Ganjam, respectively, sources said.
Besides, the meeting unanimously selected candidates for seven Panchayat Samiti seats, leaving the remaining eight to be decided by a committee consisting of former Ganjam block Chairman Surat Pahan, Sanatan Behera, Prasant Nayak, Satrughna Mahankud and Kantari Pallai.
Palang GP sitting Sarapanch Rajashri Gouda, former Sarapanches like Prasant Kumar Nayak, Trilochan Sahu, Bhimsen Dora, Satrughna Mahankud and Dharanidhar Swain and former block Vice-Chairman Prabhakar Nayak and more than 2,000 party workers attended the meeting and pledged their supports to former Deputy Speaker in State Assembly Rama Chandra Panda.
Similarly, a meeting of BJP workers of Chhatrapur block was held at Pottlampur village for the Bhikaripalli zone to decide candidates for Zone 21.
Former block Chairman Geetanjali Swain, ZP Member Indira Senapati and former Sarapanches like T Babu Rao, Subash Chandra Choudhury, Biswanath Behera and Surendra Sethi attended the meeting.
The meeting constituted an 11-member committee to select Samiti and Sarpanch candidates and authorised former Assembly Deputy Speaker Panda to consult leading workers and people to select and finalise candidate for the zone, sources said.