Nuapada, Oct. 20 -- Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Snehangini Chhuria filed her nomination papers today for the upcoming Nuapada Assembly by-election. She submitted her nomination in the presence of Rajya Sabha MP Niranjan Bishi and senior BJD leader Sanjay Das Burma.

Earlier, BJP candidate Jay Dholakia and Congress nominee Ghasiram Majhi had filed their nominations.

Notably, Chhuria had lost the 2024 Assembly polls to BJP nominee Nihar Ranjan Mahananda from Attabira constituency in Bargarh. However, she has been appointed as the president of Biju Mahila Janata Dal (BMJD), the women wing of Opposition BJD, recently.

Jay, son of late BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia, had joined the saffron party on October 11. On the other hand, Majhi is a pr...