Cong releases list of 2 candidates for LS polls, 8 for assembly polls in Odisha

Congress released a list of two candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Odisha and eight candidates for elections to the legislative assembly of the stateThe party has fielded Nagendra Pradhan and Suresh Mohapatra to contest from Sambalpur and Cuttack LS seats respectivelyAccording to the candidate list released by AICCs Central Election Committee former MLA Debi Prasad Chand will contest from Jaleswar assembly segment while Monalisa Lenka will fight from the Balasore assembly seatPramod Kumar Hembram will contest from the Baripada assembly seat in place of Badal HembramThe party fielded Ajay Samal in the Barachana assembly constituency and Fakir Samal will contest from the Pallhara seatMLA Md Moquim has been pitted from the BarabatiCuttack constituency while Pratima Mallick will fight from the Jagatsinghpur assembly segmentThe party further replaced Manoj Kumar Pradhan from the Khandapara assembly constituency and fielded Baijayantimala Mohanty from the seatAssembly and Lok Sabha elections 2024 will be held simultaneously in Odisha in four phases starting from Phase One on May 13 Phase Two on May 20 Phase Three on May 25 and the final Phase on June 1 The results will be announced on June 4In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls the Biju Janata Dal BJD got the maximum number of seats 12 followed by the BJP 8 and the Congress just oneMeanwhile the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP released a list of its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 and fielded Ravi Prakash Maurya from AmethiThe party has pitted Syed Danish from Sant Kabir Nagar and Sabiha Ansari from AzamgarhMayawatiled BSP has earlier fielded Thakur Prasad Yadav from Rae Bareli Kamar Hayat Ansari from Ambedkar Nagar and Brijesh Kumar Sonker from Bahraich a Scheduled Caste reserved constituencyThe party has also fielded Hembabu Dhangar from Hathras Kamal Kant Upmanyu from Mathura Pooja Amrohi from Agra and Ram Niwas Sharma from Fatehpur SikriSatendra Jain Sauli has been fielded from Firozabad Sarika Singh Baghel from Etawah Kuldeep Badauria from Kanpur Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi from Akbarpur and Surendra Chandra Gautam from JalaunUnlike the 2019 elections when it was in alliance with the Samajwadi Party SP and the Rashtriya Lok Dal RLD the party is contesting the elections alone this timeIn its first list the BSP has nominated Mazid Ali from Saharanpur Shreepal Singh from Kairana Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar Vijendra Singh from Bijnor Surendra Pal Singh from Nagina Mohammad Irfan Saifi from Moradabad Zeeshan Khan from Rampur Shaukat Ali from Sambhal Mujahid Hussain from Amroha Devratt Tyagi from Meerut Praveen Bansal from Baghpat Rajendra Singh Solanki from Gautam Buddha Nagar Girish Chandra Jatav from Bulandshahr Abid Ali from Aonla Aneesh Ahmed Khan alia Phool Babu from Pilibhit and Dodram Verma from ShahjahanpurThe BSP contested nine of these seats in 2019 winning four Saharanpur Bijnor Nagina and Amroha The SP fielded candidates in the other five last time winning three while the RLD lost both the seats it contestedLok Sabha elections 2024 will be held in seven phases beginning April 19Uttar Pradesh which sends the maximum number of MPs 80 to Parliament is voting in all seven phasesVoting for phase one was held on April 13 and phase two is scheduled on Friday Next the state will once again poll in phases three and four on May 7 and May 13 The Uttar Pradesh electorate will also vote in phases five six and seven on May 20 May 23 and June 1 respectivelyWith inputs from ANI