Congress candidate list: 12 names decided in MP, Nakul Nath likely to contest from Chhindwara, say sources

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ALSO READ: Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress CEC meet today to finalise candidates for remaining seats. What to expect Sources said that both Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot are unlikely to contest. Among the seats that were discussed at the meeting were 14 each from Rajasthan, Assam, and Gujarat, 16 from Madhya Pradesh, and five from Uttarakhand, besides one from the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.

For Rajasthan, about 10 candidates were finalized, including Rahul Kaswan, who quit the BJP to join the Congress on Monday, from Churu; Vaibhav Gehlot from Jalore and Harish Meena from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur. Discussions were first taken up at the CEC meeting for the five Uttarakhand parliamentary constituencies. Former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Ambika Soni, T S Singhdeo, P L Punia, and Mohammad Jawaid, among others, attended the CEC.

The discussions are most expected to be held on the Lok Sabha seats of Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, and Madhya Pradesh. Congress had released its first list of candidates for 39 Lok Sabha constituencies on March 8. The names have been announced for Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshwadeep, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana, and Tripura.

Among the 39 candidates announced, 16 are from Kerala, seven from Karnataka, six from Chhattisgarh, and four from Telangana. Two from Meghalaya and one each from Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, and Lakshwadeep. According to the first list of candidates released by the party, former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel has been fielded from Rajnandgaon, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal from Alappuzha (Kerala) and Shashi Tharoor has been renominated from Thiruvananthapuram.