Women energy on present as BMC mayor candidates hit ballot path  

Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Just two weeks to go, the municipal elections in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar is priming for an enchanting triangular combat with mayor candidates of BJD, BJP and Congress hitting the marketing campaign path on Tuesday, marking the International Women’s Day.

The mayor publish, reserved for girls, goes to be a direct election for the primary time. The city native our bodies’ polls might be held on March 24. BJD mayor candidate Sulochana Das and BJP nominee Suniti Mund, who filed their nomination papers on Monday, visited Lingaraj Temple to hunt the blessing of the Lord on the primary day of their campaigning. 

A former journalist, Das visited the Eleventh-century shrine within the morning and shortly launched into campaigning. She lined a minimum of six wards attending varied conferences and programmes together with occasions organised by totally different communities to have fun girls’s day. “I am overwhelmed with the support received from women and community members in different wards. If elected, I will ensure all-round development of the city and make it No 1 Smart City in India,” she stated. 

Mund visited totally different wards to attended occasion programmes and convey girls’s day greetings to neighborhood members. Congress mayor candidate Madhusmita Acharya additionally campaigned aggressively in several wards. For BJD, the ballot plank is the clear-clean picture of CM Naveen Patnaik and the 5T governance for the event of town.

Opponents BJP, Congress and Independent candidates, alternatively, have reached out to voters with the varied civic points town is grappling with. Apart from mayoral candidates, corporators aspirants in 67 wards additionally intensified their marketing campaign. Flanked by supporters with flags and banners, they  visited totally different localities of town for door-to-door campaigning. 

Sources in BJP stated campaigning might be strengthened additional after launching of occasion’s manifesto in subsequent couple of days. “We are going to highlight the massive failures of urban governance in the State capital over the last one decade,” stated a celebration chief.

Bhubaneswar district Congress president Biswajit Dash stated, his occasion candidates desire direct contacts with voters after Covid restrictions have been lifted. 

A complete 12 mayor candidates and 366 corporator candidates filed their nomination papers for the city elections. Scrutiny of the nominations might be held on March 9.