The Indian National Congress on Thursday released another list of candidates for Lok Sabha Elections 2019. The party in the latest list named 2 candidates for the mega polls, both of them from Uttar Pradesh. The party in the list named its nominees on Varanasi, and Gorakhpur Lok Sabha Seat.
Ending months-long speculation about Priyanka Gandhi contesting from Varanasi, Congress named Ajay Rai to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi in the mega polls 2019. The party has also named Madhusudan Tiwari from Gorakhpur Lok Sabha Seat.
Rai had in 2014 national elections contested against Narendra Modi and managed to secure only 75,000 votes. While SP-BSP has named Shalini Yadav to contest from Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat.
Modi had in 2014 General elections defeated AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal with over 3.80 Lakh votes. Prior to Narendra Modi, BJP Senior Leader Murli Manohar Joshi represented the Varanasi Seat since 2009-2014. However, he has was shifted to Kanpur in 2014 after Narendra Modi decided to contest from Varanasi.
PM Narendra Modi is slated to file his nomination for Varanasi tomorrow, April 26. Last Date to file nomination is April 29.
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Madhusudan Tiwari to be the Congress candidate from Gorakhpur #LokSabhaElections2019 https://t.co/urwomZKG4h
— ANI (@ANI) April 25, 2019
With this list, Congress in a run-up to national elections has named its candidates on 421 Parliamentary Seats. In Uttar Pradesh, the party has forged an alliance with Apna Dal Faction, Jan Adhikar Party, Mahan Dal among others.
Party has fielded its President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, while United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be on electoral fray from home turf – Rae Bareli.
Apart from this, the Congress President will also contest from Wayanad Lok Sabha Seat in Kerela.
READ: Check Out Full list of Congress Candidates for Lok Sabha Polls 2019
General Elections have already started and would spread across all seven phases from April 11 to May 19.
80 seats of the state will go to polls in all seven phases starting from April 11 till May 19. Phase-IV of Voting is slated for April 29.
Counting of votes will take place on May 23, four days after the final round of Polling.
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