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Cong okays list of 14 candidates
The Morning Standard
|March 28, 2024
CEC finalises nominees of 4 Uttar Pradesh seats, but no word on Raebareli and Amethi
THE Congress on Wednesday announced candidates for 14 Lok Sabha seats including four seats in Uttar Pradesh.
The party has fielded Dolly Sharma from Ghaziabad and Shivam Valmiki from Bulandshahr. Nakul Dubey is party's nominee from Sitapur and Virendra Chaudhary will contest from Maharajganj.
Chaudhary is MLA from Pharenda assembly segment under Maharajganj. Dubey, a lawyer by profession, was a minister in Mayawati's cabinet. Sharma unsuccessfully contested the 2019 election from the same seat. In Jharkhand, Kalcharan Munda is pitted against Union minister Arjun Munda in Khunti (reserved). Sukhdeo Bhagat and Jai Prakashbhai Patel are Congress' candidates from Lohardaga (reserved) and Hazaribagh.
The list released late evening also comprises names of candidates for three parliamentary seats in Madhya Pradesh Guna, Damoh and Vidisha. Rao Yadvendra Singh is fielded from Guna and Tarvar Singh Lodhi from Damoh. Pratap Bhanu Sharma has been nominated from Vidisha.
This story is from the March 28, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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