Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today announced MLA candidates for Khandapada, Nilgiri, and Korei assembly constituencies for the upcoming elections.

The regional party has fielded Sabitri Pradhan for Khandapada, Sukanta Nayak for Nilgiri and Sandhyarani Das for Korei.

Worth mentioning, Sandhyarani Das is the mother of BJD organizational secretary and party's Sambalpur MP candidate Pranab Prakash Das.

On the other hand, Sukanta Nayak is the sitting MLA of Nilgiri.

The BJD also changed its candidate in Deogarh constituency by replacing Arundhati Devi with Romanch Ranjan Biswal.