Key Points
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its second list of candidates for three remaining Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, picking former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as its candidate from the prestigious Cuttack Parliamentary seat.e)..
Apart from Mahtab, the party nominated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak Sukanta Panigrahy and former director of the National Informatics Centre, Rabindra Behera as candidates from Kandhamal and Jajpur Lok Sabha seats, respectively..
Mahtab, who has been elected from Cuttack six times since 1998, resigned from the BJD on March 22 and joined the BJP on Thursday, alleging that chief minister Naveen Patnaik had stopped meeting party MPs and MLAs for last five years and now diktats were being given to him and other leaders..
The party is yet to announce candidates for any of the 147 seats in the state assembly that is going to polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha..
The BJD has already announced candidates for 72 assembly and 15 Lok Sabha seats for the four phase-polls beginning on May 13..
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