Congress Announces Fresh List Of 10 Candidates For Lok Sabha, Names Kanhaiya Kumar From North East Delhi

While Kanhaiya Kumar will contest against BJP's candidate Manoj Tiwari, JP Agarwal will fight against BJP candidate Praveen Khandelwal.

Congress has named Kanhaiya from North East Delhi.

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Congress on Sunday announced 10 more candidates for Lok Sabha polls. The party has fielded J P Agarwal from Chandni Chowk and Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi.

While Kanhaiya will contest against BJP's candidate Manoj Tiwari, JP Agarwal will fight against BJP candidate Praveen Khandelwal. 

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 | Congress releases another list of 10 candidates for the general elections.

Kanhaiya Kumar to contest from North East Delhi (against BJP North East Delhi candidate Manoj Tiwari), JP Agarwal to contest from Chandni Chowk (against BJP candidate from… pic.twitter.com/0c4oiZVIn9

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The party has also fielded former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar-SC Lok Sabha seat and Udit Raj from North-West Delhi.

 

In Punjab, the party renominated its sitting MPs Gurjeet Singh Aujla from Amritsar and Amar Singh from Fatehgarh Sahib (SC) Lok Sabha seat.

 

Meanwhile, former MP Dharvir Gandhi will be contesting from the Patiala Lok Sabha seat. His candidature comes mere days after he joined the Congress leaving the Aam Aadmi Party. 

 

Congress has nominated its All India Kisan wing chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat and Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu from the Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency, which is currently represented by SAD chief's wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

 

The Congress announced the name of Ujjwal Revti Raman Singh from Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad Lok Sabha seat. The opposition party also announced a list of 75 candidates for the Odisha assembly elections.

Ujjwal Raman Singh Fielded From Allahabad Seat

The Congress also announced former Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Ujjwal Raman Singh as its candidate from the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat. Singh, who joined the Congress party recently, is the son of senior SP leader Reoti Raman Singh.

 

Voting in the Allahabad parliamentary constituency will be held in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 25.

 

The Congress and the SP are partners in the opposition INDIA bloc and have a seat-sharing agreement in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls. While the Congress is contesting on 17 seats, the SP is contesting on 62 and one seat has been given to the Trinamool Congress.