The Congress on Friday released its first list of 39 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The party announced the candidates for Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana, and Tripura. Of the 39 candidates announced, 15 are from the general caste and 24 are from SC/ST/minorities.
“…Our priority is to win the maximum Lok Sabha seats to defeat PM Modi in this next elections. Our target is to win the maximum number of parliament seats for the Congress party…” Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said after the announcement of the names.
The names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections were cleared during the Congress party’s Central Election Committee meeting held in New Delhi on Thursday.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi, and general secretary KC Venugopal were present during the meeting. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi joined the meeting via Zoom.
The suspense over whether Rahul Gandhi will contest a second seat from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi remains. The Congress has said that the remaining states will be taken up for discussion in the next meetings.
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