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Congress releases 4th list of 46 candidates for LS polls

The Congress on Saturday announced its fourth list of 46 Lok Sabha candidates, including party stalwart Digvijaya Singh and leaders Ajay Rai and Karti P Chidambaram.Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh has been fielded from the Rajgarh constituency, while Ajay Rai will be contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi for the third straight time. .Former BSP leader Danish Ali, who represented the Mayawati-led party in the Lok Sabha from Amroha, has been nominated from the same seat by the Congress.
As part of its seat-sharing arrangement with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is contesting 17 out of 80 seats and has now named candidates for nine. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat's son, Virendra Rawat, has been given a ticket from Haridwar Lok Sabha seat, while Congress leader PL Punia's son, Tanuj Punia, has been given a Lok Sabha ticket from Bara Banki in Uttar Pradesh.

Sashikant Senthil, the IAS officer who resigned and joined the Congress Party, has been given a ticket to contest from Thiruvallur.The sitting MP from Tamil Nadu, Manickam Tagore, will be contesting again from Viruddhnagar.
In Jammu and Kashmir, Congress has fielded two-time MP Chaudhary Lal Singh from the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat. He is pitted against Union Minister Jitendra Singh. The party has also given a ticket to the working President of J&K Congress and former state minister Raman Bhalla from the Jammu seat.
The party has left Rajasthan's Nagaur Lok Sabha constituency for Hanuman Beniwal's Rashtriya Loktantrik Party. Hanuman Beniwal will contest from Nagaur on the RLP ticket under the INDIA bloc against BJP's Jyoti Mirdha.

The Congress also declared its list of 18 candidates for the Sikkim assembly polls, fielding its state unit chief Gopal Chettri from Chujachen.The Congress named 18 candidates, including Snumit Targain from the Gangtok-BL seat, Aita Tamang from Upper Burtuk, Mangal Subba from Yangthang, Karma Tashi Bhutia from Shayri-BL and Sandup Lepcha from Tumen Lengi- BL.

Sikkim has 32 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat. Polling for the assembly and Lok Sabha elections will be held simultaneously on April 19.


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