Congress List: It's Vikramaditya Singh vs Kangana in Mandi; Manish Tewari to contest from Chandigarh


New Delhi, April 13 (IANS): The Congress on Saturday announced the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections after a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee held here.

Accordingly, the Congress has fielded its sitting legislator from the Shimla Rural seat, Vikramaditya Singh, who's the son of six-time Himachal Chief Minister late Virbhadra Singh, against BJP’s Kangana Ranaut in Mandi. The seat is held by Vikramaditya Singh's mother Pratibha Singh, who won the bypoll in 2021.

The party has also fielded Vinod Sultanpuri from the Shimla (reserved) seat.

The list includes the names of two candidates from Himachal Pradesh, nine from Odiasha, four from Gujarat, and one for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh.

The Congress has given the ticket for the Chandigarh seat to its sitting MP from Punjab’s Anandpur Sahib, Manish Tewari. The former Union Minister will take on Sanjay Tandon of the BJP.

The meeting of the Central Election Committee was attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and AICC General Secretary K.C. Venugopal.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Congress List: It's Vikramaditya Singh vs Kangana in Mandi; Manish Tewari to contest from Chandigarh



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.