The Central Committee of the Socialist UnityCentre of India(Communist) on Monday announced names of the candidates for five lok Sabha seats and seventeen Assembly seats in the first phase.
The candidates are Binapani Das for the Cuttack lok Sabha seat, Justine lugun for Sundergarh, Prasadi Pradhan from Sambalpur, Subhash Chandra Mallick from Jajpur and Manasi Swain from Dhenkanal.
For Assembly seats, the party fielded Minati Jena from Anandpur, Sambhunath Nayak from Jashipur, Jamuna Samad from Karanjia, Radhaballav Mallick from Binjharpur, Akshaya Kumar Das from Dharmasala, Prahallad Sahu from Talcher, Mandodari Raula from Angul, Bharat Kumar
Nayak from Chendipada, Nityananda Mallick from Biramaharajpur, Pratap Chandra Mishra from Barabati Cuttack, Ganesh Kumar Tripathy from Chowdar Cuttack, Raj Kishore Mallick from Cuttack Sadar, Umesh Chandra
Malha from Ali, Subash Baral from Pipili, Krushna Chandra Mohapatra from Ranapur, Siba Prasad Reddy from Gopalpur and Rama Barik from Koraput.