BJD announces list of candidates for 18 Assembly seats

Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced the list of candidate for 18 assembly seats.

Sambit Routray, son of senior BJP leader Damodar Rout, will fight from Paradip constituency. Damodar Rout joined the BJP recently.

18 Assembly seats:

Puri: Maheswar Mohanty

Jatani: Bibhuti Balabantaray

Barabati-Cuttack: Debasis Samantaray

Cuttack Sadar: Chandra Sarathi Behera

Tirtol: Bishnu Das

Rengali: Reena Tanti

Jashipur: Golak Bihari Nayak

Bangiriposhi: Sudam Marandi

Saraskana: Amar Singh Tudu

Udala: Srinath Soren

Balasore: Jiban Pradip Das

Jaleswar: Aswini Kumar Patra

Badasahi: Brundaban Das

Bhadrak: Sanjeev Malik

Soro: Parsuram Dhada

Badachana: Amar Prasad Satpathy

Rajnagar: Dhruba Sahu

Paradeep: Sambit Routray