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Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera, among 7 Congress Rajya Sabha nominees

Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera, among 7 Congress Rajya Sabha nominees

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The Congress on Thursday announced its list of seven candidates for the upcoming biennial Rajya Sabha elections, renominating party’s national chief Mallikarjun Kharge from Karnataka, with party functionaries aware of the matter saying that the selections underline loyalty factors, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s imprint, and a couple of fresh faces in the House of the Elders. Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera, among 7 Congress Rajya Sabha nominees Gandhi loyalist Meenaakshi Natarajan, who had won the Mandsaur Lok Sabha seat—a difficult seat for the Congress—in 2009, and has been a key member in Gandhi’s core team, has been given a ticket from Madhya Pradesh. Former MP chief minister Digvijaya Singh’s term in the Rajya Sabha is coming to an end. Congress’ media department head Pawan Khera has been given a Rajya Sabha ticket from Karnataka, where the party will get three seats. Khera had once questioned if there was any shortcomings in his devotion after he was overlooked by the party a few years ago for a ticket for the Upper House of Parliament. Party …

Muslim candidates dominate Congress wins in Assembly polls

Muslim candidates dominate Congress wins in Assembly polls

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Most of the Congress candidates who won in the recent Assembly elections were Muslism, sources analysing the poll results said. In Assam, 18 out of 19 MLAs that Congress has won are Muslims. In Kerala as many as 30 MLAs are from the Congress-led UDF alliance. Eight Congress MLAs are Muslims The grand old party won two seats in West Bengal — both of whom are Muslims from Muslim-dominated seats. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Heavyweights including ministers, party presidents, rebels file nomination on last day| India News

Heavyweights including ministers, party presidents, rebels file nomination on last day| India News

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Guwahati: Several political heavyweights including ministers and party presidents submitted their papers on Monday, the last day of filing nominations for next month’s Assam assembly. Assam Congress state unit president, Gaurav Gogoi, filed nomination papers for the Jorhat seat. (ANI) Voting for the single-phased election will take place on April 9. Prominent among those who filed nominations on Monday were BJP ministers, Ranoj Pegu (Dhemaji), Jayanta Malla Baruah (Nalbari), Chandra Mohan Patowary (Tihu) and Bimal Borah (Tingkhong). Senior cabinet minister and president of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Atul Bora, and party colleague and minister Keshab Mahanta filed nominations for the Bokakhat and Kaliabor seats respectively. AGP, is a partner in the BJP-led coalition government in Assam. Former Congress state president, Bhupen Kumar Borah, who joined BJP last month, filed nomination from the Bihpuria seat. Congress state unit president, Gaurav Gogoi, filed nomination papers for the Jorhat seat. The 43-year-old who is also the Lok Sabha MP from the same constituency (Jorhat) will be facing former assembly speaker and sitting BJP MLA, Hitendra Nath Goswami. “People …

With first Congress list, shape of contests in Kerala firms up| India News

With first Congress list, shape of contests in Kerala firms up| India News

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Thiruvananthapuram : The contours of the poll battle in Kerala became clear on Tuesday as the Congress released a list of 55 candidates and ally Indian Union Muslim League another 25 for the upcoming assembly polls next month. Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala has been fielded from Haripad constituency. With this, the ruling Left Democratic Front has announced 130candidates, its main challenger the United Democratic Front 95, and the National Democratic Alliance 75. All 140 assembly seats in Kerala go to the polls on April 9. Key battleground seats include Nemom, Vattiyoorkavu, Peravoor and Palakkad. The LDF is hoping for a third consecutive term. In its first list, the Congress dropped one sitting lawmaker Palakkad legislator Rahul Mamkootathil, who is embroiled in multiple sexual assault charges. It fielded 19 sitting lawmakers including state unit chief Sunny Joseph (Peravoor), Leader of the Opposition VD Satheesan (Paravur), senior leader Ramesh Chennithala (Haripad), former minister AP Anilkumar (Wandoor), former youth unit chief Roji M John (Angamaly) and AICC secretary PC Vishnunadh (Kundara). Instead of Mamkootathil, who was accused by …

Assam polls: Congress names 42 candidates in first list; Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat| India News

Assam polls: Congress names 42 candidates in first list; Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat| India News

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The Congress on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming elections to the 126-member Assam assembly, becoming the first party in the state to start announcing its candidates. Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi during unveiling of a ‘charge sheet’ against the state’s BJP government, in Guwahati, on Feb. 19 (PTI) Gaurav Gogoi, the president of the party’s state unit and Congress’s deputy leader in Lok Sabha, will contest the election from the Jorhat. The assembly segment is one of the 10 that make up the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat he represents in parliament. Elections to the state assembly are expected to be held in April. Apart from Gogoi, other prominent faces in the Congress list are former state unit president Ripun Bora who will be contesting from Barchalla and the leader of opposition in the assembly, Debabrata Saikia, who will contest from the family’s stronghold Nazira. Nandita Das, the sitting MLA from the reserved seat of Boko, has been fielded from Hajo-Sualkuchi seat, which is also reserved for scheduled caste candidates. …

Maharashtra elections: Congress releases third list of 16 candidates | Latest News India

Maharashtra elections: Congress releases third list of 16 candidates | Latest News India

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The Congress announced its third list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections on Saturday. This follows the release of its first list, which included 48 candidates, and a second list of 23 candidates earlier. With this latest announcement, Congress has now revealed a total of 87 candidates. Congress releases third list of candidates as Maharashtra elections’ nomination deadline approach. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition has finalised its seat-sharing arrangement for 255 constituencies, allocating 85 seats each to Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction). The distribution of the remaining 23 seats will be determined based on the candidate lists of each party, it had said. ALSO READ- Arvind Kejriwal reiterates he was ‘attacked’ during Delhi padyatra: ‘They tried to kill me’ Congress’s third list for Maharashtra assembly elections On the other hand, among the three partners in the Mahayuti alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Ajit Pawar’s NCP have each released two candidate lists, while Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has issued one list thus far. ALSO READ- Maharashtra …

Congress announces candidates for assembly bypolls in Karnataka, Assam – India TV

Congress announces candidates for assembly bypolls in Karnataka, Assam – India TV

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Image Source : PTI/FILE Representative Image Congress on Wednesday released a list of candidates for the assembly bypolls in Karnataka and Assam. The list comprises candidates’ names on two seats in Karnataka and one in Assam. According to the latest seat, the grand old party has fielded Jayanta Borah from Assam’s Behali assembly seat. Notably, Behali is part of the Tezpur Lok Sabha constituency. The seat was held by BJP’s Ranjit Dutta, who upon becoming Lok Sabha MP, vacated the seat. The BJP has fielded Diganta Ghatowar from the seat. The contest has become interesting as Borah had contested as an independent candidate from the constituency in the 2021 assembly elections and secured second place. Assembly bypolls in Karnataka In Karnataka, the Congress has announced candidates for two seats namely, Sandur (ST) and Channapatna. From Sandur, Congress has declared E Annapurna as its candidate while from Channapatna, it has fielded CP Yogeshwar who left BJP and joined the Congress party on Wednesday. Former BJP leader CP Yogeshwara joined the Congress party on Wednesday, expressing gratitude to Congress and explaining that …

Congress declares candidates for Assam and Madhya Pradesh assembly bypolls

Congress declares candidates for Assam and Madhya Pradesh assembly bypolls

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Image Source : FILE PHOTO Representative image Assembly by-polls: Congress on Sunday (October 20) announced candidates for the November 13 by-elections to assembly constituencies in Assam and Madhya Pradesh. The party declared candidates for four out of five seats in Assam and two seats in Madhya Pradesh. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the proposals to nominate the candidates for the bye-elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Assam and Madhya Pradesh. Check full list of candidates  For Assam bypolls, Congress has announced Dhrubajyoti Purakayastha (Dholai-SC) constituency, Sanjib Warle for Sidi (ST), Brajenjit Sinha for Bongaigaon and Tanzil Hussain for Samaguri. For Madhya Pradesh bypolls, Mukesh Malhotra and Rajkumar Patel will be contesting from Vijaypur and Budhni constituencies respectively. Assembly by-polls The bypolls in Budhni and Vijaypur assembly constituencies in Sehore and Sheopur districts, respectively, in Madhya Pradesh will be held on November 13 and votes will be counted on November 23. The bye-election to the Budhni assembly seat was necessitated following the resignation of Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who won from the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat earlier …

Haryana assembly election: Congress releases 3rd list of 40 candidates | Latest News India

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The Congress released its third list of 40 candidates for the Haryana assembly election on Wednesday, including the name of Aditya Surjewala, son of party MP Randeep Surjewala, who will contest from Kaithal. The seats yet to have candidates declared are Ambala Cantt, Panipat Rural, Tigaon, Sohna, Narwana, Bhiwani, Rania, Narnaund, and Uklana.(File photo) With this announcement, the Congress has named 81 candidates for the 90-member assembly, leaving nine seats without candidates. The seats yet to have candidates declared are Ambala Cantt, Panipat Rural, Tigaon, Sohna, Narwana, Bhiwani, Rania, Narnaund, and Uklana. Thursday is the final day for filing nominations. These candidates are included in the list – The Congress’s third list includes former deputy chief minister Chander Mohan from Panchkula, former minister Nirmal Singh from Ambala City, Akram Khan from Jagadhri, Balwan Singh Daulatpuria from Fatehabad, Ram Niwas Rara from Hisar, Pradeep Narwal from Bawani Khera (SC), and Mohammad Israil from Hathin. Congress releases 3rd list of candidates(via HT) The third list includes 40 candidates(via HT) – Besides Aditya Surjewala, whose father has previously …

Vinesh Phogat likely to contest Haryana election from Julana, Bajrang Punia from Badli as Congress candidates | Latest News India

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Sep 04, 2024 01:53 PM IST Haryana assembly election: The names of Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang are likley to be cleared by the Congress Central Election Committee on Wednesday or Thursday. Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia are likely to contest the Haryana assembly elections from Julana and Badli seats, respectively, as Congress candidates, party sources said. The names will be cleared by the Congress Central Election Committee on Wednesday or Thursday. Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi with wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia in New Delhi.(PTI) Vinesh Phogat wanted to fight from the Julana seat, but the Congress had initially wanted her to contest from another seat near Gurugram, the sources said. The Congress CEC has approved candidates in 66 of 90 seats so far. Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia’s names are not in the list of 66. The development comes shortly after Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday amid speculation that the two star grapplers could be fielded in the Haryana assembly …