The Congress on Tuesday launched its second of 43 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Key leaders who’ve figured within the ‘Grand Old Party’ second list are Nakul Nath (son of former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath) from Chhindwara, Vaibhav Gehlot (son of ex-Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot) from Jalore, Pradeep Tamta from Almora, Rahul Kaswan from Churu, Gaurav Gogoi.
Both Gaurav Gogoi and Vaibhav Gehlot have modified their seats.
Congress gave 76.7 per cent of tickets in its second list to candidates from SC, ST, and OBC classes. The subsequent Central Election Committee assembly of the social gathering will happen on March 15.
In the second list, Congress introduced candidates from 5 states and one Union Territory. From Assam, the social gathering declared 12 candidates, Gujarat 7, Madhya Pradesh 10, Rajasthan 10, Uttarakhand 3, and one from Daman and Diu.
Congress fielded 10 candidates from Rajasthan together with former chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav from Jalore Lok Sabha seat and sitting MP Rahul Kaswan, who just lately joined the social gathering leaving the BJP, from Churu.
Among 10 fielded from Rajasthan embody Vaibhav Gehlot, three sitting MLAs, together with Lalit Yadav from Alwar Lok Sabha seat, Harish Meena from Tonk Lok Sabha seat and Brijendra Ola from Jhunjhunu Lok Sabha seat. Among the brand new face within the list are Karan Singh Uchiyarda, who’s presently social gathering’s state normal secretary, and Sanjana Jatav from Bharatpur.
Lalit Yadav is the Congress’ sitting MLA from Mundawar, Harish Meena from Deoli-Uniara and Brijendra Ola from Jhunjhunu meeting seat.
Harish Meena had earlier represented Dausa Lok Sabha seat whereas Udailal Anjana, who was a minister within the earlier Ashok Gehlot’s authorities and represented the Chittorgarh Lok Sabha seat, has been fielded from the identical seat. Anjana had contested the 2023 meeting polls from the Nimbahera seat unsuccessfully.
Govind Meghwal, who was additionally a former minister within the earlier Congress authorities within the state, has been fielded from Bikaner. Former IAS officer Tarachand Meena has been given a ticket from the Udaipur Lok Sabha seat.
A number of days in the past, BJP launched its first list of 195 candidates. The list featured PM Modi amongst different high leaders of the social gathering.
The second list got here a day after the Congress’ central election committee, chaired by social gathering chief Mallikarjun Kharge, met on the social gathering headquarters right here to finalise the candidates.
In the assembly, discussions had been held for greater than 60 seats within the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Assam and the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. Congress leaders Ajay Maken and Pawan Khera had been additionally on the briefing.
With inputs from PTI
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