BJD will fare very well in LS, assembly polls: Naveen
TNN | Mar 12, 2019, 04:08 ISTBhubaneswar: Confident about his party’s performance in the general and assembly elections, BJD president and chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday said, “I can assure you that BJD will do very well in both.”
Stating that the process for selection of candidates for the the Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections was on, Naveen said the list would be finalised very soon.
Four Lok Sabha constituencies — Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur and Koraput — and 28 assembly constituencies in the state will go to polls on April 11. The list of candidates to be fielded in the first phase is likely to be out by the third week of March. Many sitting MPs and MLAs are likely to be dropped, a senior BJD functionary said.
Quizzed about reports of the problem of plenty with many leaders joining the party, Naveen said, “We will manage it well.”The regional party, which is seeking a fifth straight term, will field candidates in all 147 assembly segments and 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state. At present, it has 118 MLAs in the state assembly and 20 MPs in Lok Sabha. All the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 147 assembly segments will go to polls in four phases on April 11 (four Lok Sabha seats and 28 assembly seats), April 18 (five Lok Sabha seats and 37 assembly segments), April 23 (six Lok Sabha and 42 assembly seats) and April 29 (six Lok Sabha seats and 42 assembly segments).
A day after the announcement of the election schedule, many senior leaders including sitting MPs and MLAs visited Naveen Niwas, the residence of the BJD president to discuss the party’s strategy for the forthcoming polls. Party-hopping continues with former BJD MLA from Khurda — Jyotirindra Nath Mitra — who had joined BJP ahead of the 2014 polls, returning to the party fold. Mitra, who represented the Khurda assembly segment from 2000-09, is likely to replace Rajendra Sahoo in the Khurda assembly segment, in the coming polls. The youth and students’ wing of the party also launched a campaign against the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to highlight the alleged central neglect of Odisha on different aspects.s
Stating that the process for selection of candidates for the the Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections was on, Naveen said the list would be finalised very soon.
Four Lok Sabha constituencies — Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur and Koraput — and 28 assembly constituencies in the state will go to polls on April 11. The list of candidates to be fielded in the first phase is likely to be out by the third week of March. Many sitting MPs and MLAs are likely to be dropped, a senior BJD functionary said.
Quizzed about reports of the problem of plenty with many leaders joining the party, Naveen said, “We will manage it well.”The regional party, which is seeking a fifth straight term, will field candidates in all 147 assembly segments and 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state. At present, it has 118 MLAs in the state assembly and 20 MPs in Lok Sabha. All the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 147 assembly segments will go to polls in four phases on April 11 (four Lok Sabha seats and 28 assembly seats), April 18 (five Lok Sabha seats and 37 assembly segments), April 23 (six Lok Sabha and 42 assembly seats) and April 29 (six Lok Sabha seats and 42 assembly segments).
A day after the announcement of the election schedule, many senior leaders including sitting MPs and MLAs visited Naveen Niwas, the residence of the BJD president to discuss the party’s strategy for the forthcoming polls. Party-hopping continues with former BJD MLA from Khurda — Jyotirindra Nath Mitra — who had joined BJP ahead of the 2014 polls, returning to the party fold. Mitra, who represented the Khurda assembly segment from 2000-09, is likely to replace Rajendra Sahoo in the Khurda assembly segment, in the coming polls. The youth and students’ wing of the party also launched a campaign against the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to highlight the alleged central neglect of Odisha on different aspects.s
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