New Delhi, Mar 22 (IANS): The Congress on Thursday launched its third listing for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, naming 56 candidates from eight states, together with its chief within the Decrease Home, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from Baharampur in West Bengal.
The listing consists of candidates for each seats in Arunachal Pradesh, 11 from Gujarat, 17 from Karnataka, seven from Maharashtra, 5 every from Rajasthan and Telangana, eight from West Bengal, and one from Puducherry.
The occasion additionally introduced that it’s leaving the Sikar seat in Rajasthan for the CPI-M.
A lot of family members of distinguished occasion leaders and up to date entrants figures within the listing.
Different distinguished names within the listing embody Chhatrapati Shrimant Shahu Maharaj from Kolhapur and Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde, the daughter of former Union Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, from Solapur (SC) (each Maharashtra); Priyanka Jarkiholi, daughter of Karnataka PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi (Chikkodi), Mrunal Hebbalkar, son of Ladies and Youngster Welfare Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar (Belagavi), and Radhakrishna, son-in-law of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, from Gulbarga (SC) (all Karnataka); former Arunachal Chief Minister Nabam Tuki (Arunachal West), and former Puducherry Chief Minister Ve. Vaithilingam (Puducherry), and former West Bengal occasion chief Pradeep Bhattacharya (North Kolkata).
In Telangana, the Congress has fielded three leaders who had not too long ago switched to the occasion from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
BRS MLA Danam Nagender, who joined the occasion 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 occasion final month, will contest from the Malkajgiri constituency.
Her candidature from Chevella was withheld on the final minute.
