BJD broadcasts mayoral candidates for Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur companies

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister and president of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Saturday introduced the names of candidates for mayor posts of three municipal companies going to polls on March 24.

While Sulochana Das, State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, has been introduced because the BJD’s mayor candidate for Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Rajya Sabha member Subash Chandra Singh would be the get together’s nominee for the publish in Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC). Sanghamitra Dalei, president of the ladies’s wing for Ganjam district has been introduced because the candidate for publish of mayor of Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC).

A former spokesperson of the ruling BJD, Das was appointed because the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities in March 2019. Das who was the spokesperson of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) had give up the get together to hitch the ruling BJD in June 2017.

It is for the primary time that Singh, a Rajya Sabha member has been requested to contest for the publish of mayor. Singh additionally treasurer of the BJD, was elected to the Rajya Sabha on March 24, 2020. Singh served because the chairman of the Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board for 2 consecutive phrases.

Besides, he’s additionally a founder member and normal secretary of Biju Shramik Shamukhya, the commerce union wing of the ruling BJD. All eyes are actually on the BJP’s candidate for the publish of mayor within the three municipal companies. Congress has already introduced Madhusmita Acharya and Giribala Behera because the get together’s mayoral candidates for BMC and CMC. However, it’s but to announce the candidate for BeMC.