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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge (Centre), KC Venugopal (Right)
Congress national general secretary KC Venugopal announced the second list of party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday (12 March) with 43 names.
The list includes 12 candidates from Assam, seven from Gujarat, 10 each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, three from Uttarakhand and one from Daman and Diu.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath was declared a candidate from his incumbent seat of Chhindwara. Another sitting MP Rahul Kaswan got a ticket.
However, Kaswan was elected as MP from Rajasthan's Churu twice (in 2014 and 2019) on a BJP ticket. Earlier, his father Ram Singh Kaswan won from here four times on a BJP ticket.