Congress on Monday released the sixth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party has named 5 candidates from Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.  

 

In the sixth list, the party has named Ramchandra Choudhary from Ajmer, Sudarshan Rawat from Rajsamand, Dr Damodar Gurjar from Bhilwara and Prahlad Gunjal from Kota in Rajasthan; and C Robert Bruce from Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.

 

The grand old party gave the ticket to Prahlad Gunjal, a former BJP leader who joined the party recently, from Kota to take on BJP candidate and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Gunjal joined the Congress in Jaipur last Thursday in the presence of former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra. Gunjal, a close aide of BJP leader Vasundhara Raje, was the MLA from Kota North twice earlier but had lost the last assembly polls. He is seen as a very vocal leader and with his arrival, the Congress is expected to benefit in the Hadoti region. 

 

Ajmer dairy chairman Ramchandra Chaudhary was given the ticket from Ajmer, former MLA Sudarshan Rawat from Rajsamand and local party leader Damodar Gurjar from Bhilwara.

 

The new list comes a day after Congress on Sunday released its fifth list of three candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.



 

With the latest list, the Congress has so far declared 22 candidates and left two seats -- Sikar and Nagaur under alliance with the CPI (M) and RLP respectively. With this, the party has declared a total of 190 candidates for the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls starting April 19.

 

In the fifth list, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas has been fielded from Jaipur, in place of Sunil Sharma. Among the other two candidates are Pratibha Suresh Dhanorkar from Chandrapur seat in Maharashtra, and Murari Lal Meena from Rajasthan's Dausa. The announcement of candidate for Banswara Lok Sabha seat is pending. 










 

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Congress’s first list had 39 names, notable among them were Bhupesh Bhaghel from Chhatisgarh, Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Shashi Tharoor from Kerala; and DK Suresh from Karnataka. There were 15 candidates from the general category while 24 candidates were from Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and Minorities.