Key Points
Congress today announced that Rahul Gandhi will contest from Wayanad in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as the Congress Election Committee has cleared the names of all 15 sitting MPs from Kerala..
The committee has also approved the names of candidates for 40 out of the 60 seats under consideration..
Notable names include former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, former Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh from Manipur valley, and Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram..
The AICC screening committee recommended the nominations of the Kerala MPs, and based on this, the Congress Election Committee cleared their names..
The committee, chaired by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and attended by Sonia Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Salman Khurshid, P L Punia, Mohd Javed, Pritam Singh, and Uttam Reddy, discussed potential candidates from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Delhi, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura...
