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Lok Sabha Polls 2024: The Indian National Congress has released its second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Among the top candidates, former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot’s son, Vaibhav Gehlot, has received the ticket from Jalore.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal says, “Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi is to contest from Jorhat, Assam. Nakul Nath to contest from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara. Rahul Kaswa will contest from Rajasthan’s Churu. Vaibhav Gehlot will contest from Jalore.
Congress fields Pradyut Bordoloi from Nagaon, Roselina Tirkey from Kaziranga, Rohan Gupta from Ahmedabad East, Bharat Makwana from Ahmedabad West, Lalitbhai Vasoya from Porbandar, Anantbhai Patel from Valsad, Pankaj Ahirwar from Tikamgarh, Kamleshwar Patel from Sidhi, Brijendra Ola from Jhunjhunu, Tarachand Meena from Udaipur, Pradeep Tamta from Almora, Ganesh Godiyal from Garhwal, and Ketan Dahyabhai Patel from Daman & Diu.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal says, “In this list, out of the 43 candidates, 10 are general candidates, 13 OBC candidates, 10 SC candidates, 9 ST candidates and 1 Muslim candidate.”
A total of 12 candidates have been announced from Assam, 10 from Madhya Pradesh, 7 from Gujarat, 10 from Rajasthan, three from Uttarakhand and one from Daman and Diu.
In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress has fielded Nakul Nath, who is the son of a senior party leader Kamal Nath, from the Chhindwara constituency. Phool Singh Baraiya has been fielded from Bhind, whereas Pankaj Ahirwar will contest from Tikamgarh.
Siddharth Kushwaha will contest from Satna, whereas Kamleshwar Patel will fight the Lok Sabha polls from Sidhi. The party has also given the ticket to Omkar Singh Markam from Mandla.
Other names that have been announced are Rajendra Malviya from Dewas, Radheshyam Muvel from Dhar, Porlal Kharte from Khargone, and Ramu Tekam from Betul. In Assam, Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded from the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat.
Congress has also fielded Garjan Mashhary from Kokrajhar, Rakibul Hussain from Dhubri, Deep Bayan from Barpeta, Madhab Rajbanshi from Darrang Udalguri, Mira Barthakur Goswami from the Guwahati Lok Sabha seat, Joyram Engleng from Diphu, Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury from Karimganj, Surjya Kanta Sarkar from Silchar, Pradyut Bordoloi from Nagaon, Roselina Tirkey from Kaziranga and Prem Lal Ganju from Sonitpur.
On being announced as a candidate from Assam’s Jorhat for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said, “I want to thank the central leadership of Congress party for giving me this responsibility. We will fight the elections with full strength and try to win it. Since the list is final now, we will strategize accordingly…”
In Gujarat, Congress has fielded Nitishbhai Lalan from Kachchh Lok Sabha constituency, Geniben Thakor from Banaskantha, Rohan Gupta from Ahemdabad East, Bharat Makwana from Ahemdabad West, Lalitbhai Vasoya from Porbandar, Siddharth Chaudhary from Bardoli and Anantbhai Patel from Valsad.
Rahul Kaswan, who joined Congress after quitting the BJP, has been fielded from Rajasthan’s Churu. Kaswan is a sitting MP from Churu.
Other names that have been announced from Rajasthan are Brijendra Ola from Jhunjunu, Lalit Yadav from Alwar, Sanjana Jatav from Bharatpur, Harish Chandra Meena from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, and Karan Singh Uchiyarda from Jodhpur.
