Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Mallikarjun Kharge-led Congress released the list of star campaigners for Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections. The list of campaigners include former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, Digvijaya Singh, Sachin Pilot, among others.
The list includes 40 names as star campaigners for the state which sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha. Other campaigners include Alka Lamba, Ajay Rai. The list further includes Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, Siddaramaiah and Revanth Reddy.
Meanwhile, on Friday the Congress released its ninth list of five candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party has announced three candidates for Karnataka and two for Rajasthan.
The party has fielded CP Joshi from Bhilwara in Rajasthan and Damodar Gurjar is set to contest from Rajsamand in Rajasthan.
On Thursday, Congress released its eighth list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Jharkhand.
In Jharkhand, Kalicharan Munda will contest from Khunti seat, Sukhdev Bhagat from Lohardaga and Jai Prakashbhai Patel from Hazaribagh. In Madhya Pradesh, Rao Yadvendra Singh will contest against Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Tarwar Singh Lodhi from Damoh and Pratap Bhanu Sharma against the former minister. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will contest elections from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency.
For Uttar Pradesh, Congress released 4 candidates. Dolly Sharma has been given ticket from Ghaziabad, Shivram Valmiki from Bulandshahr, Nakul Dubey to contest from Sitapur and Virendra Chaudhary has been fielded from Maharajganj.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 seats, while the Indian National Congress (INC) managed to secure only 52 seats.
Elections for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases from April 19. About 97 crore voters are eligible to vote in the general elections.
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Published: March 31, 2024, 09:56 PM IST
