Congress unveils list of 17 candidates from Andhra, Bihar, Odisha & West Bengal for 2024 LS polls

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New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday released a list of 17 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections...

Meanwhile, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, two-time MP from Bihars Muzaffarpur, Ajay Nishad, resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress on Tuesday...

This comes after the BJP, in its fifth list of candidates, gave the ticket to Raj Bhushan Nishad from Muzaffarpur, who was defeated by Ajay Nishad in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with more than 4 lakh 10 thousand votes...

The election for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases starting April 19.The counting of votes will take place on June 4...

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won 282 seats, while the Indian National Congress (INC) managed to get only 44 seats...

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