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Congress releases third list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls

| @indiablooms | Mar 16, 2019, at 11:05 am

New Delhi, Mar 16 (IBNS): The Congress has released their third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, which is scheduled to be held between Apr 11 and May 19.

The third list consists of candidates from Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.

Congress' woman leader Sushmita Dev will fight the polls from Silchar constituency of Assam while Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded in Assam's Kaliabor seat.

The grand old party has fielded seven candidates coming from backward communities across the six states touched upon in the latest candidate list.

The counting of polls will take place on May 23.

The full list of candidates:

Assam:

Karimganj: Swarup Das

Silchar: Sushmita Dev

Kaliabor: Gaurav Gogoi

Jorhat: Sushanta Borgohain

Dibrugarh: Paban Singh Ghatowar

Meghalaya:

Shillong: Vincent H. Pala

Tura: Dr. Mukul M. Sangma

Nagaland:

Nagaland: K.L. Chishi

Sikkim:

Sikkim: Bharat Basnett

Telangana:

Adilabad: Ramesh Rathod

Peddapalle: A Chandra Sekhar

Karimnagar: Ponnam Prabhakar

Zahirabad: K Madan Mohan Rao

Medak: Gali Anil Kumar

Malkajgiri: A Revanth Reddy

Chevella: Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

Mahabubabad: Porika Balram Naik

Uttar Pradesh:

Barabanki: Tanuj Punia

 

 

 


Image Credit: Congress Twitter

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