Expressbuzz, March 26, 2009
SAMBALPUR: BSP national executive member and Orissa in- charge Siddharth Patil yesterday declared that BSP would field candidates in all the 147 Assembly and 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in the State.
The Lok Sabha candidates are Jayaram Dungdung (Sundargarh), Sudarshan Luhar (Keonjhar), Gama Singh (Mayurbhanj), Govind Ram Agrawal (Sambalpur), C D Majhi (Nabarangpur), Sada Naik (Koraput), Sradhanjali Pradhan (Balasore), Nityananda Jena (Bhadrak), Lenin Lenka (Kendrapara), Bibhuti Majhi (Jagatsinghpur), Rajesh Kutra (Berhampur), Naba Kishore Suna (Bolangir), Krushna Chandra Sahu (Dhenkanal) and Gurmit Singh (Kalahandi).
Though BSP’s chances of winning from any of the seats, either Assembly or Lok Sabha, is doubtful, political observers opine that it can be a spoiler for the Congress as it can upset the latter’s vote bank. In the last Lok Sabha polls, Ashok Mittal had polled 44,259 votes and political observers said these were votes of the Dalits and the tribals who were with the Congress but of late, they have been drifting towards the BSP. In places like Nuapada, the BSP has been able to muster good support base with strong organisation.
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