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Bhubaneswar: In what may leave the Congress leadership red-faced, the party’s Mahila wing president in Odisha Sumitra Jena on Monday questioned the selection procedure of some candidates. “Tickets have been finalised on grounds of merit and winnability,” said Congress state president Niranjan Patnaik. She also expressed her displeasure over non-inclusion of any of the women leaders from Odisha in the party’s 40-member star campaigners list. “We have many women leaders in Odisha, who deserve to be candidates and star campaigners. The list of star campaigners contained names of the party’s national leaders like general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, All India Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev, national spokesperson Ragini Nayak and actors Nagma and Vijayashanti..