All arrangements have been put in place for smooth conduct of the fourth and final phase of polls to be held in six Lok Sabha and 41 Assembly constituencies in the State on Monday.
Fates of 52 Lok Sabha candidates, including 12 women, and 336 MLA nominees, including 34 females, will be decided by 95.06 lakh voters. The six LS seats going to polls are Baleswar, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur.
As many as 72, 363 personnel have been deployed in poll duty in 10,792 booths. Nearly 3,092 polling stations have been identified as critical. Voting for the Patkura Assembly seat under the Kendrapada LS constituency will be held on May 19, informed State Chief Election Officer Surendra Kumarat a Press meet here.
Among senior leaders, BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda, BJD candidate and noted cine star Anubhab Mohanty (Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat), BJD candidate and sitting MP Rabindra Jena and PCC president’s son Nabajyoti Patnaik (Baleswar LS seat) are
in the fray. BJP candidate and former MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai will take on BJD candidate and sitting Tirtol MLA Dr Rajashiree Mallick in the Jagatsinghpur LS segment.
In the Assembly polls, fates of incumbent Ministers Anant Das and Prafulla Samal, Government Chief Whip Amar Prasad Satpathy, former Ministers Damodar Rout, Pranab Prakash Das, Raghunath Mohanty and Bishnu Das and many sitting MLAs, including Chiranjib Biswal, Prashant Muduli and Pritiranjan Ghadai, will be decided in this phase.