The Congress on Thursday released its third list of 56 candidates for the Lok Sabha election across seven States and the Union Territory of Puducherry while leaving one seat for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Rajasthan.
So far, the party has announced 138 candidates in three lists.
The party has fielded its leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur in West Bengal, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishnan D. from Karnataka’s Gulbarga, and former Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s daughter, Praniti Shinde, from Solapur in Maharashtra, among others.