The Congress celebration has launched its third listing of candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Within the third listing, the Congress has fielded 56 candidates from eight states, together with its chief within the Decrease Home, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from the Baharampur seat in West Bengal from the place the TMC has fielded cricketer Yusuf Pathan. The Congress additionally mentioned that it’s leaving the Sikar seat in Rajasthan for the CPI-M.
The 56 candidates embrace 11 from Gujarat, 17 from Karnataka, eight from West Bengal, seven from Maharashtra and 5 every from Rajasthan and Telangana. Of the distinguished faces within the listing are Chhatrapati Shrimant Shahu Maharaj from Kolhapur and Praniti Shinde, the daughter of former Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde from the Solapur (SC) seat; Karnataka PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi’s daughter Priyanka Jarkiholi from the Chikkodi, Girls and Baby Welfare Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar’s son Mrunal Hebbalkar from the Belagavi seat, and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna, from the Gulbarga seat.
कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्री @kharge की अध्यक्षता में आयोजित ‘केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति’ की बैठक में लोकसभा चुनाव, 2024 के लिए 57 लोकसभा सीटों पर कांग्रेस उम्मीदवारों के नाम की तीसरी लिस्ट जारी की गई। pic.twitter.com/7TMkx4faZ4
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 21, 2024
Different candidates on the listing embrace former Arunachal Chief Minister Nabam Tuki from the Arunachal West and former Puducherry Chief Minister Ve. Vaithilingam from the Puducherry seat and former West Bengal celebration chief Pradeep Bhattacharya from the North Kolkata seat. In Telangana, the Congress has fielded three leaders who had not too long ago switched to the celebration from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
BRS MLA Danam Nagender, who joined the celebration on March 17, has been named because the candidate from Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency. Ranjith Reddy, the sitting BRS MP from Chevella who too joined the Congress on March 17, will search re-election from the identical constituency on a Congress ticket this time.
BRS legislator Patnam Mahender Reddy’s spouse and Vikarabad ZP Chairperson Sunitha, who joined the celebration final month, will contest from the Malkajgiri constituency. Her candidature from Chevella was withheld on the final minute. In Gujarat, the celebration has named Congress Legislative Occasion chief within the Gujarat Meeting Amit Chawda from Gujarat’s Anand, whereas Sonal Patel from Gandhinagar, Prabhaben Taviyad from Dahod (ST) and Nilesh Kumbani from Surat, amongst others. With this, the celebration has declared a complete of 138 candidates for the polls.
