Congress names 43 candidates for Lok Sabha elections | Full list

Prominent names in the list included the likes of Congress leader Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath, Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi.

Updated on: Mar 13, 2024, 05:08:37 IST

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The Congress on Tuesday released its second list of 43 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Prominent names in the list included the likes of Congress leader Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath, Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge addresses a press conference at his residence, in New Delhi (Hindustan Times)

A total of 12 candidates have been announced from Assam, whereas 10 candidates have been announced from Madhya Pradesh, 7 from Gujarat, 10 from Rajasthan, three from Uttarakhand and one from Daman and Diu.

Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said, “We have already announced our first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. Today, we are going to announce the second list. Yesterday, CEC met and cleared the list of around 43 names from Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan.”

READ | Lok Sabha polls: Congress names Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath, Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot in 2nd list

In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress has fielded Nakul Nath who is the son of a senior party leader Kamal Nath from the Chhindwara constituency. Pankaj Ahirwar will contest from Tikamgarh whereas Phool Singh Baraiya has been fielded from Bhind.

Other names that have been announced include Porlal Kharte from Khargone, Ramu Tekam from Betul, Rajendra Malviya from Dewas, and Radheshyam Muvel from Dhar.

In Assam, Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded from the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat.

Check out the full list here:

Sl. No.	States	Lok Sabha seat	Name of candidate
1	Assam	Kokrajhar - ST	Garjan Masshary
2	Assam	Dhubri	Rakibul Hassan
3	Assam	Barpeta	Deep Bayan
4	Assam	Darrang - Udalguri	Madhab Rajbanshi
5	Assam	Guwahati	Mira Barthakur Goswami
6	Assam	Diphu - ST	Joyram Engleng
7	Assam	Karimganj	Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury
8	Assam	Silchar - SC	Surjya Kanta Sarkar
9	Assam	Nagaon	Pradyut Bordoloi
10	Assam	Kaziranga	Roselina Tirkey
11	Assam	Sonitpur	Prem Lal Ganju
12	Assam	Jorhat	Gaurav Gogoi
13	Gujarat	Kachchh	Nitishbhai Lalan
14	Gujarat	Banaskantha	Geniben Thakur
15	Gujarat	Ahmedabad East	Rohan Gupta
16	Gujarat	Ahmedabad West	Bharat Makwana
17	Gujarat	Porbandar	Lalitbhai Vasoya
18	Gujarat	Bardoli	Siddharth Chaudhary
19	Gujarat	Valsad	Anantbhai Patel
20	Madhya Pradesh	Bhind	Phool Singh Baraiya
21	Madhya Pradesh	Tikamgarh	Pankaj Ahirwar
22	Madhya Pradesh	Santa	Siddharth Kushwaha
23	Madhya Pradesh	Sidhi	Kamleshwar Patel
24	Madhya Pradesh	Mandla	Omkar Singh Markam
25	Madhya Pradesh	Chhindwara	Nakul Nath
26	Madhya Pradesh	Dewas	Rajednra Malviya
27	Madhya Pradesh	Dhar	Radheshyam Muvel
28	Madhya Pradesh	Khargone	Porlal Kharte
29	Madhya Pradesh	Betul	Ramu Tekam
30	Rajasthan	Bikaner	Govind Ram Meghwal
31	Rajasthan	Churu	Rahul Kaswan
32	Rajasthan	Jhunjhunu	Brijendra Ola
33	Rajasthan	Alwar	Lalit Yadav
34	Rajasthan	Bharatpur	Sanjana Jatav
35	Rajasthan	Tonk	Harish Chandra Meena
36	Rajasthan	Jodhpur	Karan Singh Uchiyarda
37	Rajasthan	Jalore	Vaibhav Gehlot
38	Rajasthan	Udaipur	Tarachand Meena
39	Rajasthan	Chittorgarh	Udaylal Ajana
40	Uttarakhand	Tehri Garhwal	Jot Singh Guntsola
41	Uttarakhand	Garhwal	Ganesh Godiyal
42	Uttarakhand	Almora	Pradeep Tamta
43	Daman & Diu		Ketan Dahyabhai Patel

On March 8, the Congress had announced its first list of candidates. Rahul Gandhi, Bhupesh Baghel and Shashi Tharoor were among the prominent candidates announced by the grand old party.

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