Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress on Saturday released its fourth list of 46 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The party has named Congress leader Digvijaya Singh from Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat, UP Congress president Ajay Rai from Varanasi against PM Modi, Imran Masood from Saharanpur, Virender Rawat from Haridwar, Danish Ali from Amroha, Alok Mishra from Kanpur among others.
Congress has fielded Karti Chidambaram from Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga, Manickam Tagore from Virudhnagar, S Jothimani from Karur.
The ‘Grand Old Party’ has left Rajasthan’s Nagaur Lok Sabha constituency for alliance partner Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Loktantrik Party.
Senior Congress leader Manickam Tagore has been fielded from Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu, while former Union Minister in UPA-2, Kantilal Bhuria, has been nominated from Ratlam (ST) in Madhya Pradesh.
Some of the other names that found mention in Congress’ fourth list include Akhilesh Pratap Singh (Deoria, UP), Piya Roy Chowdhury (Cooch Behar, WB), Kawasi Lakhma (Chhattisgarh), Raman Bhalla (Jammu), Sanjay Sharma (Hoshangbad, MP), Angomcha Bimol Akoijam (Inner Manipur), and Lalbiakzama (Mizoram), among others.
The party, however, is yet to name its nominee from UP’s Rae Bareli, a seat held by Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi since 2004.
Overall, in its fourth list, the party announced four candidates from Maharashtra, 12 from Madhya Pradesh, 9 from Uttar Pradesh, seven from Tamil Nadu, two each from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Manipur, and one each from Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and West Bengal.