CONG, BJP, AIADMK RELEASE LISTS OF MORE CANDIDATES

Adhir re-nominated as Cong nominee from Berhampore and Kharge's son-in-law Radhakrishna from Gulbarga

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The Congress on Thursday released its third list of 56 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, fielding Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Berhampore, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna from Gulbarga and former Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s daughter Praniti Shinde from Solapur.

The Congress has left the Sikar Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan for the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

With this, the party has declared a total of 138 candidates for the polls.

In its third list, the Congress has declared candidates for two seats in Arunachal Pradesh, 11 in Gujarat, 17 in Karnataka, seven in Maharashtra, five in Rajasthan, five in Telangana, eight in West Bengal and one in Puducherry. Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Nabam Tuki has been fielded from Arunachal West. In Gujarat, the party has named Sonal Patel from Gandhinagar, Prabha-ben Taviyad from Dahod (ST) and Nilesh Kumbani from Surat, among others.

Kharge’s son-in-law and the children of five ministers figure in the second list of 17 candidates for Karnataka announced by the Congress.        It has fielded Priyanka Jarkiholi from Chikkodi, Radhakrishna from Gulbarga (SC), Vinod Asooti from Dharwad, M Rajeev Gowda from Bangalore North, Sowmya Reddy from Bangalore South, Mansoor Ali Khan from Bangalore Central and state minister Lakshmi Ravindra Hebbalkar’s son Mrunal Ravindra Hebbalkar from Belguam, among others.

The Congress has fielded Shahu Shahaji Chhatrapati, a descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji, from Kolhapur in Maharashtra. It has also fielded Vasantrao Chavan from Nanded and Ravindra Hemraj Dhangekar from Pune.