Congress on Sunday released its ninth list of 10 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielding former finance minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu.
Sivaganga seat had been given to Chidambaram since 1984 from where he was elected six times on the Congress ticket and two times on TMC (Moopanar) ticket.
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Tariq Anwar, who was with the Nationalist Congress Party before, was nominated from Bihar’s Katihar, the constituency he represented in the last Lok Sabha.
The party also fielded former general secretary B K Hariprasad from the Bangalore South constituency in Karnataka.
The Congress replaced its candidate from Chandrapur in Maharashtra and fielded Suresh Dhanorkar, in place of Vinayak Bangade.
Karti Chidambaram, a businessman, faces trial in corruption cases, including the INX Media money laundering case. A Delhi court has given till March 25 Karti and his father interim protection from arrest in the Aircel-Maxis scam cases filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate.