Top Candidates On Congress's First Lok Sabha Election List The Congress on Friday released the first list of candidates for 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in the states of Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Sikkim. Rahul Gandhi will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kerala's Wayanad again. Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel will contest from Rajnandgaon. MP Shashi Tharoor will contest from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. D K Suresh, the brother of Karnataka Deputy CM D K Shivakumar, will contest from Bangalore Rural again. Congress general secretary K C Venugopal will contest from Alappuzha in Kerala. Former Union MoS Balram Naik (Mahabubabad) figured in the first list of candidates for Telangana. Kannada actor Shivarajkumar's wife Geetha Shivarajkumar is fielded for the Shivamogga seat in Karnataka.