While announcing the candidates, 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…”
In this list, out of the 43 candidates, 10 are General candidates, 13 OBC candidates, 10 SC candidates, 9 ST candidates and 1 Muslim candidate.
Congress has fielded former MP CM Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath from Chhindwara.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi will contest from Jorhat, Assam and Rahul Kaswa, who recently joined the Congress after leaving the BJP, will contest from Rajasthan’s Churu.
Vaibhav Gehlot, son of former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, has been fielded from Jalore, Rajasthan. Interestingly, Sachin Pilot’s name did not feature in the second list.Here’s a complete list of candidates:
More to come…
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