Bhubaneswar, April 12 -- After bringing a candidate from Jajpur to Sambalpur to contest the Lok Sabha seat, the BJD seems to have roped in another candidate who is allegedly reluctant to contest from the Assembly seat. We are talking about BJD heavyweight Prasanna Acharya whose name was announced by the party as its candidate for Sambalpur Assembly seat.

A day after the announcement of the candidate list, Acharya reportedly turned up at Naveen Niwas and held talks with the party supremo. It is learnt that the senior leader was keen to contest from Rairakhol seat. Despite being a senior leader and the party's 'crisis manager', he hasn't been allotted a particular constituency.

In 2009, he was fielded from Rairakhol. Similarly, he was nom...