Bhubaneswar: Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik will fight the upcoming Assembly elections in Odisha from Ghasipura constituency as an independent candidate.

“I have decided to fight the 2024 Assembly polls in Odisha from Ghasipura Assembly seat in Keonjhar as per the request of the local people. I will contest as an independent nominee,” announced Patnaik soon after addressing a public meeting at Ghasipura today.

The people of Ghasipura have already made up their mind to fight against the prevailing injustice and exploitation in the constituency, said Patnaik

“I will soon file my nomination for the Assembly segment,” he added.

Patnaik will take on BJD’s Badri Patra, Congress’s Subrata Chakra and BJP’s Shambhunath Rout from Ghasipura Assembly seat in 2024 polls.

Patnaik had been elected to the Odisha Assembly from Khandapada seat in Nayagarh district on a BJD ticket in 2019.