Key Points
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who has returned to the electoral fray after a gap of 15 years, visited Jagannath temple in Puri and sought blessings from the sibling deities..
Pradhan has been named as the BJP candidate from Sambalpur, while Patra has been re-nominated from Puri...
"The wave of change is clearly visible in Odisha," he said.. Pradhan, who is a minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, returned to contesting elections after a gap of 15 years after he was nominated from Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat, which is the epicentre of western Odisha...
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be an acid test for Pradhan, with the BJP contesting the polls without an alliance with the BJD...
Similarly, Sambit Patra had also unsuccessfully contested from Puri Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 elections, losing to BJD's Pinaki Misra by a margin of 11,000 votes...
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