By PTI
BHUBANESWAR: The ruling Biju Janata Dal on Tuesday named Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik amongst its 40 star campaigners for the May 31 bypoll to Brajrajnagar meeting segement in Jharsuguda district.
The regional occasion made this announcement after the opposition Congress and BJP invited neighbouring Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and its ex-CM Raman Singh to marketing campaign for his or her occasion candidates in Brajrajnagar meeting seat respectively.
Party sources stated that Patnaik, who didn’t marketing campaign in earlier by-elections in Pipili, Tirtol and Balasore meeting seats, might this time go for campaigning. The Brajrajnagar Assembly seat is prone to witness a triangular combat between BJD’s Alaka Mohanty, former MLA Radharani Panda of BJP and Kishore Patel of Congress.
Apart from Patnaik, the BJD’s star campaigners listing additionally comprised two Odia filmstars Arindam Roy and Akash Das Nayak.
The different BJD star campaigners are Odisha ministers Niranjan Pujari, Pratap Jena, Arun Kumar Sahoo, Samir Ranjan Dash, Naba Kishore Das, Susant Singh, Tukuni Sahu, DS Mishra and Cuttack Mayor Subhas Singh The BJP star campaigner listing contains the title of 5 Union Ministers – Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Pralhad Joshi, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Biseswar Tudu.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Kanhaiya Kumar will marketing campaign for Congress candidate Kishore Patel.
Congress Odisha in-charge A Chellakumar, OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik, Kantabanji MLA Santosh Singh Saluja, former OPCC presidents Sarat Patnaik, Jayadev Jena, and legislators Mohammed Moquim, Narasingha Mishra, Tara Prasad Bahinipati and Suresh Kumar Routray will even take part within the marketing campaign.
A complete of two,14,261 voters are eligible to train their franchise within the bypoll, which was necessitated as a result of dying of BJD’s Brajarajnagar MLA Kishore Mohanty on December 30 final 12 months. The counting of votes will happen on June 3.
