Bhubaneswar: A few hours after it announced candidates for 10 Lok Sabha seats, the BJP on Thursday night named nominees for 99 Assembly constituencies for the upcoming general elections in Odisha.

It is marked from the list that leaders, who recently quit the ruling BJD and the Congress and joined the saffron party, have got saffron party tickets. They are Babu Singh (Bhubaneswar), K Narayan Rao (Paralakhemundi), Damodar Rout (Erasama-Balikuda), Balabhadra Majhi (Nawarangpur) and Kusuma Tete (Sundargarh) and Prakash Behera (Salepur).