Congress releases fifth list of 56 candidates for LS polls, Deepa Dasmunshi to contest from Raiganj

The Congress party on Monday night released its fifth list of 56 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including 22 from Andhra Pradesh and 11 from West Bengal. The list also included eight candidates from Telangana, six from Odisha and five from Assam, besides three remaining seats from Uttar Pradesh. On Saturday, the Congress had called off alliance talks with the Left parties.

The Congress has fielded former president Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee from Jangipur Lok Sabha seat, former PCC chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Behrampur and former minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi's wife Deepa Dasmunshi from Raiganj. The party also fielded former Union minister M M Pallam Raju from Kakinada constituency and party's former Rajya Sabha member J D Seelam from Bapatla reserved seat.

The party also fielded its Rajya Sabha member Bhubaneswar Kalita from Mangaldoi in Assam and former Union minister Bhakt Charan Das from Kalahandi in Odisha.  The Congress also fielded its state party chief Uttam Kumar Reddy from Nalgonda in Telangana. The list was declared after a meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee chaired by party chief Rahul Gandhi earlier in the day.

The Congress has so far announced a total of 137 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The party separately also issued a list of 36 candidates for Odisha Assembly elections

Here are the names of 56 candidates:

Andhra Pradesh

Ms Sruthi V Devi from Araku – STDola Jaganmohan Rao from SrikakulamYedla Adiraju from VizianagaramSreeram Murthy from AnakapalleMM Pallam Raju from KakinadaJanga Gowtham from Amalapuram – SCNalluri Vijaya Srinivasa Rao from RajamundryKanumuri Bapiraju from NarsapuramJetti Gurunadha Rao from EluruGollu Krishna from MachilipatnamShaik Mastan Vali from GunturPakkala Suribabu from NarasaraopetJesudasu Seelam from Bapatla – SCDr SDJM Prasad from OngoleAhmed Ali Khan from KurnoolKuncham Rajeev Reddy from AnantapurKT Sreedhar from HindupurGundlakunta Sreeramulu from KadapaChevuru Devakumar Reddy from NelloreChinta Mohan from Tirupati – SCMohd Shahjahan Basha from RajampetDr Cheemala Rangappa from Chittoor – SCAssam 

Biren Singh Engti from Autonomous – STBhubaneshwar Kalita from MangaldoiMGVK Bhanu from TezpurPradyut Bordoloi from NowgongAnil Borgohain from LakhimpurOdisha 

Pradeep Kumar Devta from Bargarh – STGeorge Tirkey from Sundargarh – STBhakta Charan Das from KalahandiPradeep Majhi from Nabarangpur – STManoj Kumar Acharya from KandhamalV Chandrasekhar Naidu from BerhampurTelangana 

Madhu Yashki Goud from NizamabadM Anjan Kumar Yadav from SecunderabadFiroz Khan from HyderabadDr Ch. Vamshichand Reddy from MahbubnagarDr Mallu Ravi from Nagarkurnool – SCN Uttam Kumar Reddy from NalgondaKomatireddy Venkat Reddy from BhongirDommati Sambaiah from Warangal – SCUttar Pradesh 

Harendra Agarwal from MeerutSmt Dolly Sharma from GhaziabadBhansi Lal Pahadia from Bulandshahr – SCWest Bengal

Ms Priya Roy Chowdhury from Coochbehar – SCMohan Lal Basumata from Alipurduars -STMani Kumar Darnal from Jalpaiguri – SCShankar Malakar from DarjeelingSmt. Deepa Dasmunshi from RaiganjSadik Sarkar from Balughat Isha Khan Chowdhury from Maldaha UttarAbu Hasem Khan Chowdhury from Maldaha DakshinAbhijit Mukherjee from JangipurAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury from BaharampurAbu Hena from Murshidabad

On Saturday, the Congress party had announced its fourth list of candidates for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. Senior party leader and former union minister Shashi Tharoor and former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki are among 27 candidates who have been fielded by the grand old party. However, the Congress has dropped former union minister KV Thomas from Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat and has fielded Hibi Eden.

Similarly, Arunachal Pradesh MP Ninong Ering has also not been given ticket this time.

Out of 27 candidates, 12 are from Kerala, 7 from Uttar Pradesh, 5 from Chhattisgarh, 2 from Arunachal Pradesh and 1 from Andaman & Nicobar Islands.  The candidates who will contest the elections from Uttar Pradesh are -Harender Malik from Kairana, Indira Bhatti from Bijnor, Om Prakash Sharma from Meerut, Arvind Singh Chauhan from Gautam Budha Nagar, Brijender Singh from Aligarh, Pritam Lodhi from Hamirpur, and Bal Krishna Chauhan from Ghosi.

Name of the candidates who have been fielded from Kerala - Rajmohan Unnithan from Kasargod, K Sudhakaran from Kannur, MK Raghavan from Kozhikode, VK Sreekantan from Palakkad, MS Remya Haridas from Alathur (SC), TN Prathapan from Thrissur, Benny Bahanan from Chalakudy, Hibi Eden from Ernakulam, Dean Kuriakose from Idukki, Kodikunnil Suresh from Mavelikkara (SC), Anto Antony from Pathanamthitta, and Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram.

Kuldeep Rai Sharma has been given ticket from Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Candidates who have got tickets for Chhattisgarh are - Khel Sai Singh from Surguja (ST), Laljeet Singh Rathia from Raigarh (ST), Ravi Bharadwaj from Jangir – Champa (SC), Deepak Baij from Bastar (ST), and Biresh Thakur from Kanker (ST).

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