Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress on Wednesday launched the eighth listing of 14 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The ‘Grand Old Party’ introduced the names of its candidates for Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Telangana.
UP Congress candidates
- Dolly Sharma from Ghaziabad
- Nakul Dubey from Sitapur
- Shivram Valmiki from Bulandshahr (SC)
- Virendra Chaudhary from Maharajganj.
Madhya Pradesh Congress candidates
- Rao Yadvendra Singh from Guna
- Tarvar Singh Lodhi from Damoh
- Pratap Bhanu Sharma from Vidisha
Telangana Congress candidates
- Suguna Kumari Chelimala from Adilabad
- Tatiparti Jeevan Reddy from Nizamabad
- Neelam Madhu from Medak
Congress names candidates for 3 Jharkhand Lok Sabha seats
The listing included three Jharkhand Lok Sabha constituencies: Lohardaga, Khunti and Hazaribag.
Three extra names have been finalised for the state within the get together’s Central Election Committee (CEC) assembly held in New Delhi whereas talks on seat-sharing are on amongst I.N.D.I.A bloc companions, Congress Legislature Party chief Alamgir Alam stated.
Kalicharan Munda, Sukhdeo Bhagat and Jai Prakashbhai Patel will contest the polls in Khunti (ST), Lohardaga (ST) and Hazaribagh seats respectively, the get together introduced in New Delhi.
Patel, the Mandu MLA who left BJP and embraced Congress just lately, has been fielded from Hazaribag Lok Sabha seat. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Congress had fielded Gopal Prasad Sahu, who misplaced to BJP’s Jayant Sinha by 4.79 lakh votes. The BJP this time fielded MLA Manish Jaiswal.
Kalicharan Munda will contest from the Khunti Lok Sabha seat. He was defeated in 2019 by Union minister Arjun Munda by a slender margin of 1,445 votes.
In Lohardaga, the Congress fielded Sukhdeo Bhagat who misplaced to BJP’s Sudarshan Bhagat within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
“The CEC is likely to announce the other names in a phased manner as elections in Jharkhand will be held in the last four phases,” Alam stated.
He stated a last choice on seat sharing among the many I.N.D.I.A. bloc allies continues to be to be taken.
Leaders of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc stated {that a} seat-sharing settlement has been finalised for all of the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies within the state.
Earlier, the Congress launched the seventh candidates’ listing on Tuesday, asserting names for the remaining 4 seats in Chhattisgarh and final seat in Tamil Nadu.
Congress’ sixth listing of candidates
The Congress on Monday fielded Prahlad Gunjal, a former BJP chief and shut aide of former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, to tackle outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from Kota in Rajasthan. The candidature of Gunjal, who joined the Congress final week, was introduced because the Congress launched its sixth listing of 5 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
It introduced 4 candidates for Rajasthan and one for Tamil Nadu. The Congress fielded Ramchandra Choudhary from Ajmer, Sudarshan Rawat from Rajsamand, Damodar Gurjar from Bhilwara, and C Robert Bruce from Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu).
Gunjal joined the Congress in Jaipur final Thursday within the presence of former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra. Gunjal, an in depth aide of BJP chief Vasundhara Raje, was the MLA from Kota North twice earlier however had misplaced the final meeting polls. He is seen as a really vocal chief and along with his arrival, the Congress is anticipated to profit within the Hadoti area.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024
The General Elections 2024 for the 18th Lok Sabha can be held in seven phases, beginning from April 19. The outcomes can be declared on June 4.
