Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students’ union chief Kanhaiya Kumar are among the 10 Lok Sabha candidates that the Congress announced on Sunday.
Apart from three seats in Delhi, where the party is contesting the Lok Sabha election in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the party announced six seats in Punjab and one seat of Uttar Pradesh.
However, the suspense around Amethi and Rae Bareli continues as the party is yet to state whether a member of the Gandhi family will contest these seats. While Rahul Gandhi represented Amethi thrice since 2004 before losing to BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi represented Rae Bareli for five consecutive terms. In U.P., however, the Congress announced the name of Ujjwal Revti Raman Singh from Allahabad Lok Sabha seat.
