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“We are going to field more women candidates as instructed by our party high command. Unlike the BJD and TMC, we cannot specify the percentage of seats that we intend to keep for the women candidates. “We will do the groundwork for two or three more days as far as the selection of the aspiring women candidates is concerned,” Niranjan said. “We have many deserving women candidates in several seats. The eight assembly constituencies from where Congress had fielded women candidates in 2014 were Jashipur, Binjharpur, Hindol, Talcher, Baramba, Chilika, Khandapada and Daspalla..