The Congress on Tuesday announced its seventh list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The list has five names — four, including two women candidates, from Chhattisgarh, and one from Tamil Nadu.
With these four — Shashi Singh from Surguja, Dr. Menka Devi Singh from Raigarh, Biresh Thakur from Kanker [all three seats reserved for the Scheduled Tribe (ST)] and Devendra Singh Yadav from Bilaspur — the party has now announced all the names from Chhattisgarh that has 11 parliamentary constituencies.
Among them, Mr. Yadav, a two-time sitting MLA from Bhilai Nagar, has been named as an accused by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in the alleged coal levy money laundering case, one of the major corruption allegations faced by the previous Congress government in the State. In the last year’s Assembly elections where the Congress faced a rout in the urban areas, he was the lone exception.
