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LS Polls: Ajay Rai To Face PM Modi In Varanasi Again. Digvijaya Singh, Danish Ali Feature In Fourth Congress List

The Congress released the fourth list of 46 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election naming UP Congress President Ajay Rai, Digvijay Singh, Imran Masood, and Danish Ali among other names.

Lok Sabha Elections: The Congress party unveiled its fourth list of 45 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, revealing its strategic moves for key constituencies across the country. In a notable move, the party has nominated its Uttar Pradesh unit chief Ajay Rai to contest from Varanasi, challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his own constituency.

Rai has been fielded against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi for the third straight time. He conceded defeat at the hands of PM Modi on the previous two occasions, the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

Veteran leader Digvijaya Singh has been fielded from Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh, while the newly-inducted Lal Singh will contest from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur against Union Minister Jitendra Singh. Notably, MLA Vikas Thakare has been tasked with taking on Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in Maharashtra's Nagpur.

The party's fourth list covers candidates for 12 seats in Madhya Pradesh, nine in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Tamil Nadu, four in Maharashtra, and two each in Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Manipur, and Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, one candidate each has been named for West Bengal, Assam, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Mizoram, and Chhattisgarh.

SI. No. States Constituencies Candidates
1 Assam 12 LAKHIMPUR Uday Shankar Hazarika
2 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands Kuldeep Rai Sharma
3 Chhattisgarh 10 BASTAR (ST) Kawasi Lakhma
4 Jammu & Kashmir 4 UDHAMPUR Ch. Lal Singh
5 Jammu & Kashmir 5 JAMMU Raman Bhalla
6 Madhya Pradesh 5 SAGAR Guddu Raja Bundela
7 Madhya Pradesh 10 REWA Nilam Mishra
8 Madhya Pradesh 12 SHAHDOL (ST) Phundelal Singh Marko
9 Madhya Pradesh 13 JABALPUR Dinesh Yadav
10 Madhya Prad&sh 15 BALAGHAT Samrat Saraswat
11 Madhya Pradesh 17 HOSHANGABAD Sanjay Sharma
12 Madhya Pradesh 19 BHOPAL Arun Shrivastav
13 Madhya Pradesh 20 RAJGARH Digvijaya Singh
14 Madhya Pradesh 22 UJJAIN (SC) Mahesh Parmar
15 Madhya Pradesh 23 MANDSAUR Dilip Singh Gurjar
16 Madhya Pradesh 24 RATLAM (ST) Kantilal Bhuria
17 Madhya Pradesh 26 INDORE Akshay Bam
18 Maharashtra 9 RAMTEK (SC) Rashmi Shyamkumar Barve
19 Maharashtra 10 NAGPUR Vikas Thakare
20 Maharashtra 11 BHANDARA GONDIYA Prashant Yadavrao Padole
21 Maharashtra 12 GADCHIROLI-CHIMUR (ST) Namdev Dasaram Kirsan
22 Manipur 1 INNER MANIPUR Angomcha Bimol Akoijam
23 Manipur 2 OUTER MANIPUR (ST) Alfred Kanngam S.Arthur
24 Mizoram 1 MIZORAM (ST) Lalbiakzama
25 Rajasthan 6 JAIPUR RURAL Anil Chopra
26 Rajasthan 10 KARAULI - DHOLPUR ·SC Bhajan Lal Jatav
27 Rajasthan 14 NAGAUR Left for RLP
28 Tamil Nadu 1 TIRUVALLUR (SC) Sasikanth Senthil
29 Tamil Nadu 9 KRISHNAGIRI K.Gopinath
30 Tamil Nadu 23 KARUR S. Jothimani
31 Tamil Nadu 26 CUDDALORE M.K. Vishnu Prasad
32 Tamil Nadu 31 SIVAGANGA A. Karti P Chidambaram
33 Tamil Nadu 34 VIRUDHUNAGAR B. Manickam Tagore
34 Tamil Nadu 39 KANNIYAKUMARI Vijay Vasanth
35 Uttar Pradesh 1 SAHARANPUR Imran Masood
36 Uttar Pradesh 9 AMROHA Danish Ali
37 Uttar Pradesh 19 FATEHPUR SIKRI Ram Nath Sikarwar
38 Uttar Pradesh 43 KANPUR Alok Mishra
39 Uttar Pradesh 46 JHANSI Pradeep Jain Aditya
40 Uttar Pradesh 53 BARABANKI (SC) Tanuj Punia
41 Uttar Pradesh 66 DEORIA Akhilesh Pratap Singh
42 Uttar Pradesh 67 BANSGAON (SC) Sadan Prasad
43 Uttar Pradesh 77 VARANASI Ajay Rai
44 Uttarakhand 4 NAINITAL UDHAMSINGH
NAGAR
Prakash Joshi
45 Uttarakhand 5 HARIDWAR Virender Rawat
46 West Bengal 1 COOCH BEHAR (SC) Piya Roy Chowdhury

The Congress has left the Nagaur parliamentary constituency in Rajasthan for the Hanuman Beniwal-led Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP), aiming to strengthen its position in the state. This move is particularly significant as the Congress seeks to broaden its support base, especially among the Jat community.

For Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress is in alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and contesting 17 seats, candidates for nine seats have been announced. Apart from Ajay Rai in Varanasi, notable candidates include Danish Ali in Amroha, Imran Masood in Saharanpur, and Alok Mishra in Kanpur. However, speculation continues regarding whether Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest from Amethi and Raebareli, respectively.

The list includes significant nominations such as Kawasi Lakhma from Bastar (ST), Raman Bhalla from Jammu, and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat's son, Virender Rawat, from Haridwar. With this announcement, the Congress has declared a total of 183 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections scheduled to begin on April 19.

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