Age no bar for these Odisha ticket aspirants
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Berhampur:16.03.2019
If age is just a number, it is a very big number in the electoral fray in Ganjam district of Odisha. Several political leaders in their 70s and 80s are set to seek election and re-election in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Their experience, they insist, can give young candidates a run for their money.
There’s 10-time MLA of Kabisurya Nagara, V Sugnan Kumari Deo (82), five-time Berhampur MLA Ramesh Chandra Chaupatnaik (75), and six-time Digapahandi MLA Surya Narayan Patro
(71) of the ruling BJD.
Former assembly speaker Chintamani Dyansamantra, a three-time MLA (Chikiti), is lobbying for a Congress ticket from the Berhampur Lok Sabha seat at 78. K Shyambabu Subudhi, a “veteran candidate” at 84, is ready to try his luck again, as an independent.
“I am interested in contesting again from Berhampur assembly seat. I have conveyed my desire to party chief Naveen Patnaik,” said Chaupatnaik, who has been elected from here five times in the past. “I don’t think age is a factor when one is healthy.”
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Berhampur:16.03.2019
If age is just a number, it is a very big number in the electoral fray in Ganjam district of Odisha. Several political leaders in their 70s and 80s are set to seek election and re-election in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Their experience, they insist, can give young candidates a run for their money.
There’s 10-time MLA of Kabisurya Nagara, V Sugnan Kumari Deo (82), five-time Berhampur MLA Ramesh Chandra Chaupatnaik (75), and six-time Digapahandi MLA Surya Narayan Patro
(71) of the ruling BJD.
Former assembly speaker Chintamani Dyansamantra, a three-time MLA (Chikiti), is lobbying for a Congress ticket from the Berhampur Lok Sabha seat at 78. K Shyambabu Subudhi, a “veteran candidate” at 84, is ready to try his luck again, as an independent.
“I am interested in contesting again from Berhampur assembly seat. I have conveyed my desire to party chief Naveen Patnaik,” said Chaupatnaik, who has been elected from here five times in the past. “I don’t think age is a factor when one is healthy.”
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