The Congress on Friday introduced Bhupesh Bhaghel from Chhatisgarh; Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Shah Tharoor from Kerala; and DK Suresh from Karnataka in its first record of 39 candidates. There are 15 candidates from the final class whereas 24 names are from Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes, Different Backward Lessons, and Minorities.
Ex-Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel will contest the Lok Sabha ballot from Rajnandgaon, Ok C Venugopal to contest from Alappuzha in Kerala, Shashi Tharoor from the present Thiruvananthapuram seat, and Rahul Gandhi may even contest his Wayanad seat once more.
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The Congress’s Central Election Committee (CEC) convened on Thursday to finalise its preliminary record of candidates for the just lately concluded Lok Sabha elections. Regardless of the assembly being attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former chief Sonia Gandhi on the occasion’s Delhi headquarters, the record’s launch was deferred, holding the seats represented by the Gandhis shrouded in suspense. Media stories, citing sources, indicated that the primary record can be made public on Friday, March 8.
Rahul Gandhi, Congress chief and participant within the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jaipur, was anticipated to hitch the assembly just about however finally didn’t attend. In the meantime, the occasion’s screening committee in Kerala really useful Rahul Gandhi’s candidacy for the Wayanad seat, the place he was the incumbent MP.
Though it was extremely possible that Rahul Gandhi would contest from Wayanad once more, it remained unsure whether or not he would additionally return to Amethi, his former constituency.
Amidst the political anticipation, the potential political debut of Congress Basic Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra remained unsure. Regardless of robust sentiments amongst Congress employees advocating for Priyanka Gandhi’s candidacy in Raebareli, following Sonia Gandhi’s departure to contest within the Rajya Sabha polls, no official resolution was made.
Within the doubtless candidates’ record, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was anticipated to contest from Thiruvananthapuram, whereas in Chhattisgarh, former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Jyotsna Mahant, and Shiv Dehariya had been thought-about for Rajnandgaon, Durg, Korba, and Janjgir-Champa seats, respectively.
The Karnataka Congress, nonetheless within the strategy of finalising candidates for 4-5 seats, had not concluded discussions on the Gulbarga seat throughout the CEC assembly. There have been stories of Radhakrishna Doddamani, son-in-law of Mallikarjun Kharge, being a frontrunner for the ticket.
In Delhi, the Congress unit submitted an in depth record of potential candidates for the seven Lok Sabha seats. The excessive command instructed the Delhi unit to streamline the names for the ultimate approval, with discussions revolving round JP Agrawal, Sandeep Dikshit, and Alka Lamba for the Chandni Chowk seat, and Arvinder Singh Pretty and Anil Chowdhary for Northeast Delhi. Rajkumar Chauhan and Udit Raj had been into consideration for Northwest Delhi, as per sources.