Bharatiya Janata Party has laid the red carpet for the former IAS Aparajita Sarangi by announcing that she will be pitched for the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha seat in 2019. This was told by the senior BJP leaderBiswabhushan Harichandan in an inter-action with the media. Hari chandan further said that his son Prthviraj will contest from Chilika instead of Bhubaneswar. However , it may be recalled that in 2014 Prithviraj Harichandan had lost his deposit while contesting from an Assembly seat in Bhubaneswar.