Odisha: Congress Releases List of Candidates for Lok Sabha and Assembly Elections

The Congress released a list of four candidates from Odisha and West Bengal for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections and 16 Assembly seats in Odisha on Saturday. KC Venugopal, the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), announced the party's nominees through a press release.

For the Lok Sabha seats, the party nominated Dulal Chandra Pradhan for Sambalpur, Binod Bihari Nayak for Keonjhar, Debokanta Sarma for Aska, and Urbashi Bhattacharya for Kanthi.

Congress releases a list of 4 candidates for the #LokSabhaElections2024pic.twitter.com/CujkQX0BT4

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The list of Congress candidates for the 16 Assembly seats is as follows:

Assembly Seat	Candidate Name
Jharsuguda	Amita Biswal
Badasahi	Kshirod Chandra Patra
Sukinda	Bibhu Bushan Rout
Kantamal	Sarat Kumar Pradhan
Kendrapara	Shipra Mallick
Rajanagar	Ashok Pratihari
Mahakalapada	Loknath Moharathy
Nimapara	Siddharth Routray
Pipili	Gyan Ranjan Patnaik
Jayadev	Krushna Sagaria
Khurda	Sonali Sahoo
Chilika	Pradeep Kumar Swain
Khandapada	Manoj Kumar Pradhan
Daspalla	Nakul Nayak
Kabisuryanagar	Sanjaya Kumar Mandal
Gopalpur	Shayam Sundargarh Sahu

Congress releases a list of 16 candidates for Assembly elections in Odisha. pic.twitter.com/2wQqfMaeK0

— ANI (@ANI) April 20, 2024

Odisha will be voting for the 2024 general elections and the 147-seat state Assembly simultaneously in the last four phases. Voting in the state will be conducted for 28 Assembly seats and four Lok Sabha constituencies on May 14, followed by 35 Assembly and five Lok Sabha seats on May 20, 42 Assembly and six Lok Sabha seats on May 25, and the remaining 42 Assembly and six Lok Sabha constituencies on June 1. Results will be announced on June 4. In the 2019 polls, the state recorded a total voter turnout of 73.29%.