All about Dhenkanal

"In view of the looming Lok Sabha elections in 2009, the district administration has decided to organize the Dhenkanal Mahotsav during Lakshmi Puja which would be celebrated in September this year."

The Dhenkanal Civic Poll results are as follows: BJP-11, Congress-8, BJD-3, SP-1. The winners of respective wards are given below. Ward 1: Jayanti Sahoo/Sahu (W-Congress) (W-stands for Women) Ward 2: Santosh Kumar Rout (BJP) Ward 3: Mamata Acharya (W-BJP) Ward 4: Ajay Kumar Dash (Congress) Ward 5: Laxmidhar Patra (BJP) Ward 6: Santosh Kumar Rout (Congress) Ward 7: Ramesh Chandra Sahoo/Sahu (Congress) Ward 8: Sarbeswar Nayak (BJP) Ward 9: Subrat Kumar Behera (BJD) Ward 10: Ajay Kumar Palai (BJD) Ward 11: Narayan Ragad (Congress) Ward 12: Anima Nayak (W-BJP) Ward 13: Shagir Mohammad (Congress) Ward 14: Kuntala Dalai (W-SP) Ward 15: Nirad Kumar Sahoo/Sahu (BJP) Ward 16: Abdul Chan Khan (BJP) Ward 17: Pushpalata Mohapatra (W-Congress) Ward 18: Pratap Chandra Rout (BJP) Ward 19: Jayanti Patra (W-BJP) Ward 20: Gopal Chandra Sahoo/Sahu (Congress) Ward 21: Bapuji Mallik (BJP) Ward 22: Monika Sharma (W-BJP) Ward 23: Lalita Rath (W-BJD)

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Please mark the sentence where Dhenkanal MP Tathagat Satpathy mentions that "Dhenkanal is the heart of Orissa". I wish, he was right .... Read the complete article, obviously, in The Dharitri.