New Delhi: Congress has released its second list of 21 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The list has declared the names of 16 Lok Sabha candidates from Uttar Pradesh and 5 candidates from Maharashtra. Earlier on March 7, party had released its first list, where it made public 11 candidates from UP and 4 from Gujarat. The first list had names of UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Like this, the party has so far declared the names of 27 candidates from UP.

Today, the party declared the names of 16 Lok Sabha candidates from UP. The most interesting part is  Savitri Bai Phule, who recently joined Congress after leaving BJP has been given a ticket from Bahraich.

Besides this, Raj Babbar has been given a ticket from Moradabad, Sanjay Singh from Sultanpur, Sriprakash Jaiswal from Kanpur Lalitaesh Tripathi from Mirzapur.

5 candidates declared from Maharashtra:

The party has also declared candidates for 5 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra as well. Priya Dutt has been given a ticket from Mumbai North central, Sushil Shinde from Solapur, Milind Dewde from Mumbai South,Nana Patole from Nanapur and Dr Namdev from Gadchiroli.

The Congress earlier released its first list of 15 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielding UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi from Raebareli and party president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.

The list, finalised at a meeting of the party's central election committee chaired by Rahul Gandhi, named 11 candidates from Uttar Pradesh and four from Gujarat.

The announcement put an end to speculation that Sonia Gandhi may not contest in the upcoming polls due to health reasons and the party's newly appointed general secretary in-charge (East UP) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra may be fielded from her constituency.