Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Gearing up for the Lok Sabha Polls which are now days away, the Indian National Congress on Friday released its another list of candidate for the mega battle of ballots. The Rahul Gandhi-led party in the list named One Candidate from Jharkhand and 4 for Odisha State Polls.

The Congress is both the states – Odisha and Jharkhand has forged an alliance with Shubhu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.

The party in the list named Manoj Kumar Yadav from Chatra Lok Sabha Seat of Jharkhand. The party has forged an alliance with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and RJD in Jharkhand.

With this list, the party has so far released the names of 374 with four in Jharkhand out of 7 allotted in a poll pact.

Party in its first list maintaining the tradition 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 | Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Here is the list of Candidates announced by BJP-led NDA

While the party has also named its Candidates for Odisha State Polls. The Party has named:

  1. Bebyani Behra from Badasahi SC
  2. Surendra Prasad Pramanik Soro SC
  3. Ananta Prasad Sethi from Simulia
  4. Digambar Das from Chandbali

With the list, Congress has now total declared Candidates on 132 Assembly Seats for Odisha State Polls.

Congress in a run-up the Odisha State Polls has stitched an alliance with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and will take on Naveen Patnaik’s BJD and aggressive Bhartiya Janta Party.

The Odisha State Polls will be clubbed with the General Elections 2019. The State will Poll in four rounds of Polling starting from April 11.

The State has a total of 147 State Assembly while having 21 Lok Sabha Seats. Currently, BJD has 117 lawmakers in the state assembly.

General Elections would spread on Seven Phases starting from April 11 to May 19. Election Commission had declared schedule for General Elections 2019.

The Counting of votes for the mega battle of ballots and the State Polls will take place on May 23, four days after last round of polling.

ALSO READ:

By talharashid

Part-time Traveler| Full-time Political Enthusiast | Foodie | Strong Believer of Freedom of Speech and Expressions!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *