New Delhi: Congress election committee, headed by celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge, met on Thursday evening and finalised a lot of the candidates for six of the ten states it was contemplating for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The first checklist of candidates can be launched on Friday, sources stated to Zee News Television.
Senior celebration chief KC Venugopal, who attended the assembly together with former chief Sonia Gandhi, stated {that a} formal announcement can be made quickly. “We finalised seats from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Lakshadweep… The procedure is going on, formal announcement will be made very soon,” he instructed reporters.
Zee News’ sources stated that Rahul Gandhi, who’s main the celebration’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jaipur, didn’t be part of the assembly nearly as he was anticipated to. His identify for the Wayanad seat in Kerala has been instructed by the celebration’s screening committee. He is more likely to contest from the seat once more, as he’s the sitting MP from there.
However, it’s not clear but if Rahul Gandhi will even contest from Amethi, his outdated bastion, or if Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the celebration’s normal secretary, will make her electoral debut. There is a powerful demand amongst Congress employees for Priyanka Gandhi to contest from Raebareli, the seat vacated by her mom Sonia Gandhi to contest Rajya Sabha polls.
Some of the probably names within the first checklist are Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, Tamradhwaj Sahu from Durg, Jyotsna Mahant from Korba, and Shiv Dehariya from Janjgir-Champa in Chhattisgarh. All the important thing leaders from Chhattisgarh can be within the fray, sources stated to Zee News TV.
In Karnataka, which has a Congress authorities, the celebration has not selected 4-5 seats but. The celebration won’t subject state ministers, sources stated, as most of them are reluctant to contest the nationwide elections. Two ministers have overtly expressed their reservations. Only one minister may very well be a candidate if he chooses to contest, sources added.
Among the candidates from Karnataka is DK Suresh, the brother of state celebration chief DK Shivakumar and a celebration MP. The celebration has not taken a choice on Kalburgi, the seat of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge. There have been studies that Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani was a frontrunner for the ticket, however the seat was not mentioned on the assembly
The Delhi Congress unit submitted a protracted checklist of candidates for the seven Lok Sabha seats within the capital. The excessive command requested the unit to shortlist some names and are available again for the ultimate approval. Sources stated that the names of JP Agrawal, Sandeep Dikshit, and Alka Lamba have been thought-about for the Chandni Chowk seat.
From Northeast Delhi, the names of Arvinder Singh Lovely and Anil Chowdhary have been proposed. From Northwest Delhi, the names of Rajkumar Chauhan and Udit Raj have been in competition. The committee will meet once more on Monday to finalise the remaining candidates.
