The Congress on Tuesday fielded former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay from Ranchi and former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal from the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat.
The principal opposition party released a list 20 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls — six in Punjab, four in Gujarat, three in Jharkhand, two each in Odisha and Karnataka and one each in Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Bansal had to quit as the Railway Minister in the UPA government after his nephew was found accepting bribe for appointments in the railways.
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Full list
- Sunil Jakhar – Gurdaspur
- Gurjeet Singh Aujla – Amritsar
- Ravneet Singh Bittu – Ludhiana
- Santosh Singh Chaudhary – Jalandhar.
- Preneet Kaur – Patiala
- Raj Kumar Chhabbewal – Hoshiarpur
- CJ Chavda – Gandhinagar
- Geetaben Patel – Ahmedabad East
- Somabhai Patel – Surendranagar
- Murubhai Kandoriya – Jamnagar
- Subodh Kant Sahay – Ranchi
- Geeta Kora – Singhbhum
- Sukhdeo Bhagat – Lohardaga
- Vinay Kulkarni – Dharwad
- HB Manjappa – Davanagere
- Pawan Kajal – Kangra
- Pawan Kumar Bansal – Chandigarh
- Panchanan Kanungo – Cuttack
- Manas Jena – Jajpur
- Prabhu Ratnabhai Tokiya – Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The upcoming Lok Sabha election will start on April 11 and will end on May 19. The result will be announced on May 23.