New Delhi:
The Congress on Tuesday announced a list of 20 candidates for forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections. Among prominent names that appeared in the list are former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal from the Chandigarh parliamentary seat and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's wife and former Union minister Preneet Kaur from Patiala.
Out of 20 candidates, six are for Punjab, four for Gujarat, three for Jharkhand, two each for Odisha and Karnataka and one each for Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The grand old party has fielded former union minister Subodh Kant Sahay from Ranchi in Jharkhand. In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress has cleared the name of Pawan Kajal from the Kangra Lok Sabha seat.
Sitting MPs Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjeet Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santosh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar have been re-nominated in Punjab
In Hoshiarpur, the party fielded Raj Kumar Chhabbewal.
Check the complete list here:
CJ Chavda - Gandhinagar
Geetaben - Ahmedabad East
Somabhai Patel - Surendranagar
Murubhai Kandoriya - Jamnagar
Pawan Kajal - Kangra
Subodh Kant Sahay - Ranchi
Geeta Kora - Singhbhum
Sukdheo Bhagat - Lokhardaga
Vinay Kulkarni - Dharwad
HB Manjappa - Davanagere
Manas Jena - Jajpur
Panchanan Kanungo - Cuttack
Sunil Jakhar - Gurdaspur
Gurjit Singh Aujla - Amritsar
Santokh Singh Chaudhary - Jalandhar
Rajkumar Chabbewal - Hoshiarpur
Ravneet Singh Bittu - Ludhiana
Preneet Kaur - Patiala
Pawan Kumar Bansal - Chandigarh
Prabhu Ratnabhai Tokiya - Dadra & Nagar Haveli