BJP Released List Of Candidates For Odisha, Punjab Election

Bypolls are scheduled to be held on May 10…

New Delhi: On Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the names of candidates for the upcoming Parliamentary and Assembly by-polls in Punjab and Odisha respectively.

Bypolls will be held in Punjab's Lok Sabha constituency of Jalandhar (SC) and Odisha's Assembly constituency of Jharsuguda on May 10.

Results will be declared on May 13, coinciding with those of the Assembly elections in Karnataka.

The BJP has fielded Sardar Indar Iqbal Singh Atwal for the Jalandhar (SC) bypoll and Tankadhar Tripathy for the Jharsuguda bypoll.

Both names were declared by the party's Central Election Committee on Wednesday evening.

Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency has been vacant since January 2023 due to the demise of Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary who collapsed while walking with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

The by-polls in the seat were necessitated after his death.

Congress has announced Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, wife of Santokh Chaudhary, as its party candidate for the Jalandhar by-polls while Tankadhar will be contesting against BJD candidate Dipali Das and Congress' Tarun Pandey.

"Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the candidature of Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary as the party candidate to contest the forthcoming by-election to the Lok Sabha from the 4-Jalandhar-SC parliamentary constituency of Punjab," the party said in a statement, last month.