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Congress Candidates List 2024: Keeping in mind the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Congress has announced the first list of candidates. Many big names were decided in the meeting of Congress Central Election Committee held on March 7. Congress has approved this by announcing the first list of candidates on Friday (8 March). Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been fielded from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala.
Rahul Gandhi will contest from Wayanad and Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram.
39 names have appeared in the first list of Congress. The names of Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram, Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, Vincent Pala from Meghalaya and Ashish Saha from Tripura West have emerged.
Announcement of names of candidates on 39 seats
In this first list of 39 Congress candidates, 15 candidates are from the general category, while 24 candidates are from backward, Dalit, tribal and minority communities. Let us tell you that in the CEC meeting chaired by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha seats of 11 states and union territories were discussed. This includes the Lok Sabha seats of Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Lakshadweep. Now the names of candidates for 39 seats have been announced. At present, churning is going on on the names of candidates for the remaining seats and it is believed that the party will soon declare its second list in the coming days. Let us tell you that on March 2, BJP had announced the list of 195 candidates in 16 states and 2 union territories. Congress's first list has come 5 days after BJP's list. Announcing the list, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said that if the government is formed, we will fulfill all the promises. We are completing it in Telangana and Karnataka.
