New Delhi: The Congress party on Saturday released the fourth list of 46 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh will be contesting from the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency against BJP candidate Rodmal Nagar.
Ajay Rai, the current president of the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh, is set to compete against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming general elections in Varanasi.
Meanwhile, former Member of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Imran Masood will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Saharanpur, Virender Rawat from Haridwar, and former Bahujan Samaj Party leader Danish Ali has been fielded from the Amroha Lok Sabha constituency.
In Tamil Nadu, Congress leader and P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram, will contest from the Sivaganga. B Manickam Tagore, the incumbent MP from the Virudhunagar constituency, has been re-nominated for the same seat.
The list contains candidates from seats in Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal.
The election for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases starting April 19. Nearly 97 crore voters are eligible to cast votes in the general election. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 303 seats, while the Indian National Congress (INC) managed to get only 52 seats.
