The Congress party on Saturday announced its first list of 124 candidates for upcoming Karnataka assembly elections due in May.
Taking to Twitter, the Party said "here is the first list of Congress candidates finalised by the CEC for the forthcoming Karnataka assembly elections”.
The party's central election committee cleared the first list of candidates after a meeting in Delhi on March 17. The committee is chaired by Congress chief Kharge. Rahul Gandhi was also present at the meeting.
Names of former chief minister and leader of opposition Siddaramaiah, and state party president DK Shivakumar are present in the first list. The party has decided to field the former CM from the Varuna assembly seat in Mysuru, which is his home constituency, and KPCC chief DK Shivakumar from Kanakapura.
Other names in the list included Congress leaders Satish Jarkiholi from Yemkanmardi, Lakshmi Hebbalkar from Belgaum Rural, Priyank Kharge from Chitapur, Rizwan Arshad from Shivajinagar, Dinesh Gundu Rao from Gandhinagar, Tanveer Sait from Narasimharaja and B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan from Chamrajpet, among others.
Assembly polls in Karnataka are slated before May when the tenure of the current assembly ends.
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