Congress Lok Sabha list 2024: The Congress on Sunday (April 14) released its list of candidates, with names announced from constituencies in Gujarat, Odisha and Himachal Pradesh. The Congress party on Wednesday released its eighth list of 14 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Notably, Rao Yadvendra Singh was nominated to contest against Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna constituency.
The party has nominated Pratap Bhanu Sharma to contest against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Vidisha, while Tarvar Singh Lodhi has been put forward from Damoh. In Uttar Pradesh, Dolly Sharma has been selected for Ghaziabad, Shivram Valmiki for the Bulandshahr (SC) seat, and Virendra Chaudhary for Maharajganj.With this announcement, the Congress has now finalised candidates for four seats each in Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, and three each in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, bringing the total number of declared candidates to 208.
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Speculation continues regarding the high-profile seats of Amethi and Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. There are rumours that, apart from his declared seat of Wayanad in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi may also contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi, a constituency he represented previously. Similarly, there’s speculation that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra could contest from Raebareli, a seat previously held by her mother, Sonia Gandhi. Both seats are considered strongholds of the Gandhi family, and local Congress units have expressed their desire for the scions of the family to contest from there.
As the Lok Sabha polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases starting April 19, Wednesday marked the final day for filing nominations for the first phase of the elections. Vote counting is set to commence on June 4th.
Congress candidates, constituencies and state names – Check Full List here:
Bhupesh Baghel: Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh)
Shivkumar Dahariya: Jangir-Champa (Chhattisgarh)
Jyotsana Mahant: Korba (Chhattisgarh)
Rajendra Sahu: Durg (Chhattisgarh)
Vikas Upadhyay: Raipur (Chhattisgarh)
Tamradhwaj Sahu: Mahasumund (Chhattisgarh)
H R Algur (Raju): Bijapur (Karnataka)
Geetha Shivarajkumar: Shimoga (Karnataka)
D K Suresh: Bengaluru Rural (Karnataka)
Anandaswamy Gaddadevara Math: Haveri (Karnataka)
M Shreyas Patel: Hassan (Karnataka)
S P Muddahanumegowda: Tumkur (Karnataka)
Venkataramegowda (Star Chandru): Mandya (Karnataka)
Rajmohan Unnithan: Kasaragod (Kerala)
Rahul Gandhi: Wayanad (Kerala)
K Sudhakaran: Kannur (Kerala)
Shashi Tharoor: Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
K Muraleedharan: Thrissur (Kerala)
Shafi Parambil: Vadakara (Kerala)
M K Raghavan: Kozhikode (Kerala)
V K Sreekandan: Palakkad (Kerala)
K C Venugopal: Alappuzha (Kerala)
Ramya Haridas: Alathur (Kerala)
Benny Behanan: Chalakudy (Kerala)
Hibi Eden: Ernakulam (Kerala)
Dean Kuriakose: Idukki (Kerala)
Kodikunnil Suresh: Mavelikkara (Kerala)
Anto Antony: Pathanamthitta (Kerala)
Adoor Prakash: Attingal (Kerala)
Mohd Hamdullaha Sayeed: Lakshadweep (Lakshadweep)
Vincent H Pala: Shillong (Meghalaya)
Saleng A Sangma: Tura (Meghalaya)
S Supongmeren Jamir: Nagaland (Nagaland)
Gopal Chettri: Sikkim (Sikkim)
Suresh Kumar Shetkar: Zahirabad (Telangana)
Raghuveer Kunduru : Nalgonda (Telangana)
Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy: Mahbubnagar (Telangana)
Balram Naik Porika: Mahabubabad (Telangana)
Ashish Kumar Saha: Tripura West (Tripura)
Garjan Mashhary: Kokrajhar (ST) (Assam)
Rakibul Hussain: Dhubri (Assam)
Deep Bayan: Barpeta (Assam)
Madhab Rajbanshi: Darrang-Udalguri (Assam)
Mira Barthakur Goswami: Guwahati
Joyram Engleng: Diphu (ST) (Assam)
Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury: Karimganj (Assam)
Surjya Kanta Sarkar: Silchar (SC) (Assam)
Pradyut Bordoloi: Nagaon (Assam)
Roselina Tirkey: Kaziranga (Assam)
Prem Lal Ganju: Sonitpur (Assam)
Gaurav Gogoi: Jorhat (Assam)
Nitishbhai Lalan: Kachchh (SC) (Gujarat)
Geniben Thakor: Banaskantha (Gujarat)
Rohan Gupta: Ahmedabad East (Gujarat)
Bharat Makwana: Ahmedabad West (SC) (Gujarat)
Lalitbhai Vasoya: Porbandar (Gujarat)
Siddharth Chaudhary: Bardoli (ST) (Gujarat)
Ananthbhai Patel: Valsad (ST) (Gujarat)
Phool Singh Baraiya: Bhind (SC) (Madhya Pradesh)
Pankaj Ahirwar: Tikamgarh (SC) (Madhya Pradesh)
Siddharth Kushwaha: Satna (Madhya Pradesh)
Kamleshwar Patel: Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh)
Omkar Singh Markam: Mandla (ST) (Madhya Pradesh)
Nakul Nath: Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh)
Rajendra Malviya: Dewas (SC) (Madhya Pradesh)
Radheshyam Muvel: Dhar (ST) (Madhya Pradesh)
Porlal Kharte: Khargone (ST) (Madhya Pradesh)
Ramu Tekam: Betul (ST) (Madhya Pradesh)
Govind Ram Meghwal: Bikaner (SC) (Rajasthan)
Rahul Kaswan: Churu (Rajasthan)
Brijendra Ola: Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan)
Lalit Yadav: Alwar (Rajasthan)
Sanjana Jatav: Bharatpur (SC) (Rajasthan)
Harish Chandra Meena: Tonk – Sawai Madhopur (Rajasthan)
Karan Singh Uchiyarda: Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
Vaibhav Gehlot: Jalore (Rajasthan)
Tarachand Meena: Udaipur (ST) (Rajasthan)
Udaylal Ajana: Chittorgarh (Rajasthan)
Jot Singh Guntsola: Tehri Garhwal (Uttarakhand)
Ganesh Godiyal: Garhwal (Uttarakhand)
Pradeep Tamta: Almora (SC) (Uttarakhand)
Ketan Dayabhai Patel: Daman and Diu
Nabam Tuki – Arunachal West (Arunachal Pradesh)
Bosiram Siram – Arunachal East (Arunachal Pradesh)
Chandanji Thakor – Patan (Gujarat)
Dr Tushar Chaudhary – Sabarkantha (Gujarat)
Sonal Patel – Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
JP Marvia – Jamnagar (Gujarat)
Jennyben Thummar – Amreli (Gujarat)
Amitbhai Chavda – Anand (Gujarat)
Kalusinh Dabhi – Kheda (Gujarat)
Gulabsinh Chauhan – Panchmahal (Gujarat)
Prabhaben Taviyad – Dahod (ST) (Gujarat)
Sukhrambhai Rathwa – Chhota Udaipur (ST) (Gujarat)
Nilesh Kumbani – Surat (Gujarat)
Priyanka Jarakiholi – Chikkodi (Karnataka)
Mrunal Ravindra Hebbalkar – Belgaum (Karnataka)
Samyukta S Patil – Bagalkot (Karnataka)
Radhakrishna – Gulbarga (SC) (Karnataka)
G Kumar Naik – Raichur (ST) (Karnataka)
Sagar Khandre – Bidar (Karnataka)
K. Rajashekar Basavaraj Hitnal – Koppal (Karnataka)
Vinod Asooti – Dharwad (Karnataka)
Dr Anjali Nimbalkar – Uttara Kannada (Karnataka)
Prabha Mallikarjun – Davanagere (Karnataka)
Dr Jayaprakash Hegde – Udupi Chikmagalur (Karnataka)
Padmaraj – Dakshina Kannada (Karnataka)
BN Chandrappa – Chitradurga (SC) (Karnataka)
M Lakshman – Mysore (Karnataka)
Prof MV Rajeev Gowda – Bangalore North (Karnataka)
Mansoor Ali Khan – Bangalore Central (Karnataka)
Sowmya Reddy – Bangalore South (Karnataka)
Adv Gowaal K Padavi – Nandurbar (ST) (Maharashtra)
Balwant Basawant Wankhede – Amravati (SC) (Maharashtra)
Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan – Nanded (Maharashtra)
Ravindra Hemraj Dhangekar – Pune (Maharashtra)
Dr Shivajirao Kalge – Latur (SC) (Maharashtra)
Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde – Solapur (SC) (Maharashtra)
Shahu Shahaji Chatrapati – Kolhapur (Maharashtra)
Kuldeep Indora – Ganganagar (SC) (Rajasthan)
Left for CPI-M – Sikar (Rajasthan)
Pratap Singh Khachariyawas- Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Sangeeta Beniwal – Pali (Rajasthan)
Umeda Ram Beniwal – Barmer (Rajasthan)
Urmila Jain Bhaya – Jhalawar-Baran (Rajasthan)
Gaddam Vamsi Krishna – Peddapalle (SC) (Telangana)
Sunitha Mahender Reddy – Malkajgiri (Telangana)
Danam Nagender – Secunderabad (Telangana)
Dr Gaddam Rajith Reddy – Chevella (Telangana)
Dr Mallu Ravi – Nagarkurnool (SC) (Telangana)
Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) – Raiganj (West Bengal)
Mostaque Alam – Maldaha Uttar (West Bengal)
Isha Khan Chowdhary – Maldaha Dakshin (West Bengal)
Md Murtoja Hossain (Bokul) – Jangipur (West Bengal)
Adhir Ranjan Choudhary – Baharampur (West Bengal)
Pradip Bhattacharya – Kolkata Uttar (West Bengal)
Nepal Mahato – Purulia (West Bengal)
Milton Rashid – Birbhum (West Bengal)
Ve Vaithilingam – Puducherry (Puducherry)
Uday Shankar Hazarika – Lakhimpur (Assam)
Kuldeep Rai Sharma – Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Kawasi Lakhma – Bastarst (Chhattisgarh)
Ch. Lal Singh – Udhampur (Jammu & Kashmir)
Raman Bhalla – Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir)
Guddu Raja Bundela – Sagar (Madhya Pradesh)
Nilam Mishra- Rewa (Madhya Pradesh)
Phundelal Singh Marko – Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Dinesh Yadav – Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Samrat Saraswat – Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh)
Sanjay Sharma – Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh)
Arun Shrivastav – Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
Digvijaya Singh – Rajgarh (Madhya Pradesh)
Mahesh Parmar – Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)
Dilip Singh Gurjar – Mandsour (Madhya Pradesh)
Kantilal Bhuria – Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh)
Akshay Bam – Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
Rashmi Shyamkumar Barve – Ramtek (Maharashtra)
Vikas Thakare – Nagpur (Maharashtra)
Prashant Yadavrao Padole – Bhandara Gondiya (Maharashtra)
Namdev Dasaram Kirsan – Gadchiroli chimur (Maharashtra)
Angomcha Bimol Akoijam – Inner Manipur (Manipur)
Alfred Kanngam S. Arthur – Outer Manipur (Manipur)
Anil Chopra – Jaipur Rural (Rajasthan)
Bhajan Lal Jatav – Karauli Dholpur (Rajasthan)
Sasikanth Senthil – Tiruvallur (Tamil Nadu)
K. Gopinath – Krishnagiri (Tamil Nadu)
S. Jothimani – Karur (Tamil Nadu)
M.K Vishnu Prasad – Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu)
A.Karti P Chidambaram – Sivaganga (Tamil Nadu)
B. Manickam Tagore – Virdhunagar (Tamil Nadu)
Vijay Vasanth – Kanniyakumari (Tamil Nadu)
Imran Masood – Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
Danish Ali – Amroha (Uttar Pradesh)
Ram Nath Sikarwar – Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh)
Ajay Rai – Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Danish Ali – Amroha (Uttar Pradesh)
Alok Mishra – Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
Pradeep Jain Aditya – Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh)
Tanuj Punia – Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh)
Akhilesh Pratap Singh – Deoria (Uttar Pradesh)
Sadan Prasad – Bansgaon (Uttar Pradesh)
Prakash Joshi – Nanital Udhamsingh Nagar (Uttarakhand)
Virender Rawat – Hardwar (Uttarakhand)
Piya Roy Chowdhury – Coochbehar (West Bengal)
Pratibha Suresh Dhanorkar – Chandrapur (Maharashtra)
Murari Lal Meena – Dausa – ST (Rajasthan)
Ramchandra Choudhary – Ajmer (Rajasthan)
Dr. Damodar Gurjar – Rajsamand (Rajasthan)
Dr. C.P. Joshi – Bhilwara (Rajasthan)
Prahlad Gunjal – Kota (Rajasthan)
Adv. C. Robert Bruce – Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu)
Shashi Singh – Surguja – ST (Chhattisgarh)
Dr. Menka Devi Singh – Raigarh – ST (Chhattisgarh)
Devender Singh Yadav – Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)
Biresh Thakur – Kanker – ST (Chhattisgarh)
Adv. R. Sudha – Mayiladuthurai (Tamil Nadu)
Dolly Sharma – Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh)
Shivram Valmiki – Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh)
Rakesh Rathore – Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh)
Virendra Chaudhary – Maharajganj (Uttar Pradesh)
Dr. Suguna Kumari Chelimala – Adilabad (Telangana)
Tatiparthi Jeevan Reddy – Nizamabad ( Telangana)
Neelam Madhu – Medak (Telangana)
Chamala Kiran Kumar ReddyC – Bhongir (Telangana)
Kalicharan Munda – Kunti -ST (Jharkhand)
Sukhdeo Bhagat – Lohardaga – ST (Jharkhand)
Jai Prakashbhai Patel – Hazaribagh (Jharkhand)
Rao Yadvendra Singh – Guna (Madhya Pradesh)
Tarvar Singh Lodhi – Damoh (Madhya Pradesh)
Pratap Bhanu Sharma – Vidhisha (Madhya Pradesh)
E. Thukaram : Bellary (ST) (Karnataka)
Sunil Bose – Chamarajanagar (SC) (Karnataka)
Raksha Ramaiah: Chikkballapur (Karnataka)
Dr. Abhay Kashinath Patil: Akola (Maharashtra)
Kadiyam Kavya: Warangal (Telangana)
Mukesh Dhangar: Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
Rutvikbhai Makwana: Surendranagar (Gujarat)
Hirabhai Jotva: Junagadh (Gujarat)
Jashpalsinh Padhiyar: Vadodara (Gujarat)
Ramakant Khalap: North Goa (Goa)
Capt. Viriato Fernandes: South Goa (Goa)
Satyapal Singh Sikarwar (Neetu): Morena (Madhya Pradesh)
Praveen Pathak: Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)
Narendra Patel: Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh)
Ajit Ramjibhai Mahla:D&N Haveli (ST) (D&N Haveli)
Manish Tewari: Chandigarh (Chandigarh)
Ramji Thakor (Palvi): Mahesana
Himmatsinh Patel – Ahmedabad East (Gujarat)
Pareshbhai Dhanani: Rajkot (Gujarat)
Naishadh Desai: Navasari (Gujarat)
Vikramaditya Singh – Mandi (Himachal Pradesh)
Vinod Sultanpuri – Shimla (SC) (Himachal Pradesh)
Mohan Hembram – Keonjhar (ST) – (Odisha)
Srikant Kumar Jena – Balasore (Odisha)
Anant Prasad Sethi – Bhadrak (SC) (Odisha)
Anchal Das – Jajpur (SC) (Odisha)
Sashmita Behera: Dhenkenal (Odisha)
Sidharth Swarup Das: Kendrapara (Odisha)
Rabindra Kumar Sethy: Jagatsinghpur (SC) (Odisha)
Yasir Nawaz: Bhubaneshwar (Odisha)
Kanhaiya Kumar : North East Delhi (Delhi)
JP Agarwal : Chandhi Chowk (Delhi)
Udit Raj : North West Delhi (Delhi)
(This list will be updated as more names are announced)
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Lok Sabha Elections 2019
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Indian National Congress (INC) experienced a mixed outcome as party leader Rahul Gandhi contested from Wayanad in Kerala and Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. While he secured a clear victory in Wayanad, he faced a setback in Amethi, a traditional stronghold for the Gandhi family, losing to Smriti Irani of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Nationally, the Congress won 52 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha, lacking a significant impact on the formation of the government. The BJP, led by Narendra Modi, achieved a resounding victory, retaining power with a majority. The Congress had a tough time in many states, struggling to win enough seats. However, in places like Punjab, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, they performed better and secured some seats.