<p>Bhubaneswar: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bjp">BJP</a> leader M A Kharabela Swain on Monday announced that he will fight the Lok Sabha elections from the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/balasore">Balasore</a> seat in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/odisha/36">Odisha</a> as an Independent candidate.</p>.<p>He made the announcement a day after the BJP re-nominated its incumbent MP in the seat Pratap Sarangi, a former union minister.</p>.<p>"I will contest from the Balasore Lok Sabha seat in the upcoming election as an Independent candidate. I will campaign in the name of PM Narendra Modi. Let the people decide who is the real BJP," Swain told a press conference.</p>.<p>He said that he wouldn't quit the BJP, but the party can take action against him.</p>.<p>"I will join the BJP after winning the elections," he added, exuding confidence.</p>.People fed up with BJP, its hollow promises: Shivpal Yadav.<p>Swain, a former MP, alleged that a 'group of conspirators' within the BJP were responsible for the denial of ticket to him.</p>.<p>He represented the Balasore seat from 1998 to 2009. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he contested from Kandhamal but was defeated by BJD's Achyutananda Samanta.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, BJP's Kalahandi MP Basant Kumar Panda, who was also dropped, said he was a party worker and would continue to remain so.</p>.<p>"I welcome the decision of the party. Change is natural and we should respect it. I have performed the duties assigned to me by the party," he said.</p>.<p>Bargarh MP Suresh Pujari and Mayurbhanj MP Bisheswar Tudu, who too were denied tickets by the BJP, refused to comment. Tudu is a Union minister.</p>.<p>The BJP on Sunday announced candidates for 18 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, dropping four sitting MPs.</p>
<p>Bhubaneswar: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bjp">BJP</a> leader M A Kharabela Swain on Monday announced that he will fight the Lok Sabha elections from the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/balasore">Balasore</a> seat in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/odisha/36">Odisha</a> as an Independent candidate.</p>.<p>He made the announcement a day after the BJP re-nominated its incumbent MP in the seat Pratap Sarangi, a former union minister.</p>.<p>"I will contest from the Balasore Lok Sabha seat in the upcoming election as an Independent candidate. I will campaign in the name of PM Narendra Modi. Let the people decide who is the real BJP," Swain told a press conference.</p>.<p>He said that he wouldn't quit the BJP, but the party can take action against him.</p>.<p>"I will join the BJP after winning the elections," he added, exuding confidence.</p>.People fed up with BJP, its hollow promises: Shivpal Yadav.<p>Swain, a former MP, alleged that a 'group of conspirators' within the BJP were responsible for the denial of ticket to him.</p>.<p>He represented the Balasore seat from 1998 to 2009. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he contested from Kandhamal but was defeated by BJD's Achyutananda Samanta.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, BJP's Kalahandi MP Basant Kumar Panda, who was also dropped, said he was a party worker and would continue to remain so.</p>.<p>"I welcome the decision of the party. Change is natural and we should respect it. I have performed the duties assigned to me by the party," he said.</p>.<p>Bargarh MP Suresh Pujari and Mayurbhanj MP Bisheswar Tudu, who too were denied tickets by the BJP, refused to comment. Tudu is a Union minister.</p>.<p>The BJP on Sunday announced candidates for 18 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, dropping four sitting MPs.</p>