Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP fields Odisha ex-top cop Prakash Mishra from Cuttack
Prakash Mishra retired as the head of the Central Reserve Police Force in February 2016, and joined the BJP in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday announced the candidature of Odisha’s former director general of police Prakash Mishra from Cuttack parliamentary constituency.
Mishra retired as the head of the Central Reserve Police Force in February 2016, and joined the BJP in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
He praised the Centre’s response to the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 troopers of the central police force.
“All the countries are praising India the way we responded to the terror attack on CRPF at Pulwama. Whenever there was an attack on security, PM Modi would speak to us directly. Instead of supporting such an inspiring leadership, if we follow a discredited government in Odisha, then we will have no future,” he said shortly after joining the party.
Cuttack goes to polls in the third phase on April 23. Odisha has 21 Lok Sabha seats. The BJD had swept the 2014 elections winning 20 of the seats while the BJP won only one.
The BJP also fielded former MP Mahameghabaham Aira Kharbela Swain from Kandhamal parliamentary seat. With its eighth list on Monday, the BJP has declared candidates for 309 parliamentary seats, including support to one independent candidate in Mandya seat of Karnataka.
The BJP also released the third list of nine candidates from the state for the assembly elections.
