April 29th 2024.
On a busy Monday in Odisha, many prominent leaders from various political parties filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The district collector's office in Puri saw a number of heavyweights from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) submitting their nominations. This included Sambit Patra, the party's spokesperson and candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency, as well as Ashrit Patnaik, the BJP nominee for Pipili Assembly seat.
Patra and Patnaik led a massive rally from Uttara, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, to Puri before filing their nominations. Hundreds of party workers joined in on the rally, showing their support for the BJP candidates. This is a crucial election for Patra, who lost the Puri Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 general election by a narrow margin to Biju Janata Dal's candidate and lawyer Pinaki Misra.
In a strong response, BJD has fielded former Mumbai police commissioner and ex-IPS officer Arup Patnaik as their candidate in the Puri Lok Sabha constituency this time. The Congress party has also announced their nominee for the Puri Lok Sabha seat, Sucharita Mohanty. Meanwhile, BJD heavyweight Sanjay Das Burma, who is contesting for the Satyabadi Assembly seat, reached Puri with a massive rally of party workers and filed his nomination papers on Monday.
This marks the beginning of the nomination process for the third phase of the Odisha leg of polling, which will take place on May 25. Six Lok Sabha constituencies - Puri, Dhenkanal, Sambalpur, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Keonjhar - will be up for voting in this phase. Other leaders, including former Union Minister Dilip Ray, also filed their nominations for their respective constituencies. Ray is the BJP's candidate for the Rourkela Assembly seat.
Odisha will be holding both Assembly and Lok Sabha elections simultaneously in four phases, from May 13 to June 1. The results of these elections will be announced on June 4. It is a crucial time for all political parties and their candidates, as they make their way through the nomination process and gear up for the upcoming elections.
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