Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will seek a re-election from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, the party announced on March 8. His name was part of the party’s first list of 39 Lok Sabha candidates.
Other prominent names in the first list are former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, to contest from Rajnandgaon; party general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal, being fielded from Kerala’s Alappuzha; Congress Working Committee member and sitting MP Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram; Kodikunnil Suresh from Mavelikkara; D.K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural; Tamradhwaj Sahu from Mahasamund and Jyotsna Mahant from Korba, both in Chhattisgarh.