Congress declares five more Lok Sabha candidates

IANS  |  New Delhi 

The on Wednesday declared five more candidates including four from

also declared nine more candidates for Odisha assembly elections.

These include state from Ghosipura while Ashwini Pujahri will fight from Sambalpur and Jagdish Mohanty from Cuttack-Choudwar.

will contest from Cuttack Sadar (SC), Sukanta Tiadi Bhoi from Jaydev (SC), Rajib Patnaik from Bhubaneswar Central, Itish Pradhan from Bhubaneswar North and Pradeep Swain from Chilika.

The party has replaced former Odisha Janaki Ballabh Patnaik's son with Pradeep Sahoo from constituency.

"Pruthvi is unwilling to contest from seat in this election," Patnaik said.

On Wednesday, the party had announced candidates for two and nine Assembly constituencies in Odisha.

Former state has been named for the Cuttack seat while Manas Jena will contest from Jajpur Lok Sabha constituency.

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First Published: Wed, April 03 2019. 21:44 IST