Although the BJD has given tickets to 33 per cent women in the Lok Sabha elections, Baleswar district has not a single woman candidate either for the Parliament seat or for an Assembly constituency.

Not only the BJD, BJP too didn’t field any woman candidate for any of the constituencies although  there were several prospective candidates whose names were doing the rounds during nominations.

The name of Lekhashree Samantsinghar while was much discussed in the district, it was assumed that either she would be candidate for Lok Sabha or MLA candidate from Nilgiri or Sadar .

Lot many hoardings, posters, banners and publicity in different forms were seen for about three months ahead of nominations, but Samantsinghar was not given ticket from any of the constituencies. She is no longer seen in the district.

Congress didn’t field women candidates in any of the constituencies except Nilgiri .

The Congress party  this time has fielded  Manoja Manjari Mardaraj, from the Nilgiri royal family, for Nilgiri Assembly constituency. She would be taking on mainly candidates of BJD and BJP, Santosh Khatua and Sukanta Nayak (sitting MLA, formerly in BJD now in BJP) .

The Congress too fielded a woman candidate for the Badasahi Assembly seat of Mayurbhanj which comes under the Baleswar Parliamentary constituency.

Although , BJD was expected to field at least one woman candidate  when there were several prospective candidates yet  the party disappointed  again for the reason best known to it.

While it was almost confirmed  that Subasini Jena would be  the candidate  for Basta constituency yet  surprisingly  she was not offered ticket from Basta and on the other hand,NityananadaSahu , the sitting MLA of the party,was fielded again.

Only Congress while fielded two women candidates inNilgiri and Badasahi constituencies , three other women candidates are seeking mandate as Independents under Baleswar Parliamentary constituency.