Congress candidate list LIVE: Rahul Gandhi, Bhupesh Baghel, Shashi Tharoor among 39 candidates in Lok Sabha polls
Congress first candidate list LIVE updates: Congress party announced its candidates on 39 seats in the first list for Lok Sabha elections 2024. The list include high profile names like former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, and Dr.
Shashi Tharoor. Almost a week after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the Congress party is expected to announce its list on Friday.
The party sources have suggested that the list is finalised and will likely include some big names like former President Rahul Gandhi, former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, and senior party leader Jyotsna Mahant.The first list of Congress may include candidates from Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Sikkim and Lakshadweep. The party sources said that the candidates on the other seats will be finalised after seat-sharing talks within the INDIA blocCongress candidate list LIVE: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and is set to go against sitting Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
This time the minister is taking the Lok Sabha route to Parliament and will fight against Shashi Tharoor, who is representing the constituency since 2009. Read MoreCongress candidate list LIVE: Among the prominent names in the list include, Rahul Gandhi, from Wayanad in Kerala, Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon and DK Suresh from Bangalore Rural in Karnataka.
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