The Congress has released its first list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Vice President Rahul Gandhi, IT expert Nandan Nilekani and cricketer Mohammad Kaif are among 194 candidates for the upcoming polls.
The list also contains names of several new and young faces.
35 % of the candidates are under the age of 50.
28 of the 194 candidates in the list are women
The Central Election Committee of the party, headed by Sonia Gandhi, has finalised the list.The list includes candidates for the States of -
Andaman & Nicobar -01
Assam -10
Bihar -10
Chhattisgarh -11
Gujarat -09
Haryana -06
Jharkhand -06
Karnataka -14
Madhya Pradesh -22
Maharashtra -13
Manipur -02
Meghalaya -01
Mizoram -01
Odisha -09
Punjab -04
Rajasthan -06
Tripura -02
Uttar Pradesh -50
West Bengal -17
Total -194
Andaman & Nicobar(1)
- Andaman & Nicobar: Kuldeep Rai Sharma
Assam(10)
- Karimganj: Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya
- Silchar: Sushmita Dev
- Autonomous District - ST: Siren Singh Engti
- Barpeta: Ismail Hussain
- Gauhati: Manas Bora
- Tezpur: Bhupen Bora
- Kaliabor: Gaurav Gogoi
- Jorhat: BK Handique
- Dibrugarh: Paban Singh Ghatowar
- Lakhimpur: Ranee Narah
Bihar(10)
- Supaul: Ranjita Ranjan
- Kishanganj: Mohmd Asrarul Haque
- Purnia: Amarnath Tiwari
- Muzaffar Pur: Akhilesh Pratap Singh
- Gopalganj - SC: Dilip Kumar Majhi
- Hajipur - SC: Pratima Kumari
- 5amastipur - SC: Ashok Ram
- Patna5ahib: Rajkumar Rajan
- Sasaram - SC: Meira Kumar
- Aurangabad: Nikhil Kumar
Chhattisgarh(11)
- 5urguja - ST: Ramdeo Ram
- Raigarh - ST: Dr Maneka Singh
- Jangir - Champa - SC: Premc~iand Jaisi
- Korba: Charan Das Mahant
- Bilaspur: Karuna Shukla
- Rajnandgaon: Kamleshwar Verma
- Durg: Tamradhwaj Sahu
- Raipur: Chayya Verma
- Bastar - ST: Deepak Karma
- Dadra Nagar Haveli:
- Dadra & Nagar Haveli: Mohan Delkar
Gujarat(09)
- Sabarkantha: Shankarsinh Vaghela
- Surendranagar: Somabhai Gandabhai Patel
- Rajkot: Kuvarjibhai Bavalia
- Jamnagar: Vikrambhai Madam
- Anand: Bharatbhai Solanki
- Dahod - ST: Dr Prabhaben Taviyad
- Chhota Udaipur - ST: Naranbhai Rathwa
- Bardoli - ST: Dr Tusharbhai Chaudhary
- Valsad - ST: Kishanbhai Patel
Haryana(06)
- Kurukshetra: Naveen Jindal
- Karnal: Arvind Sharma
- Sonipat: Jagbir Malik
- Rohtak: Deepender Singh Hooda
- Bhiwani - Mahendragarh: Ms Shruti Choudhary
- Faridabad: Avtar Singh Bhadana
Jharkhand(06)
- Godda: Furkan Ansari
- Dhanbad: Ajay Dubey
- Singbhum - ST: Chitrasen Sinku
- Khunti - ST: Kalicharan Munda
- Lohardaga - ST: Rameshwar Oraon
- Hazaribagh: Saurabh Narayan Singh
Karnataka(14)
- Bijapur - SC: Prakash Rathod
- Gulbarga ·- SC: Mallikarjun Kharge
- Bidar: Dharam Singh
- Bellary - ST: Justice NY Hanumanthappa
- Davanagere: SS Mallikarjun
- Udupi Chikmagalur: Jayprakash Hegde
- Hassan: A Manju
- Tumkur: SP Muddahanumegowda
- Mandya: Divya Spandana Ramya
- Mysore: AH Vishwanath
- Chamarajanagar - SC: RDhruvanarayana
- Bangalore Rural: DK Suresh
- Bangalore South: Nandan Nilekani
- Kolar - SC: KH Muniyappa
Madhya Pradesh(22)
- Bhind* - SC: Bhagirath Prasad
- Gwalior: Ashok Singh
- Guna: Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Sagar: Govind Singh Rajput
- Tikamgarh - SC: Dr Kamleshwar Verma
- Damoh: Mahendra Pratap
- Khajuraho: Raja Pateria
- Rewa: Sunderlal Tiwari
- Sidhi: Indrajeet Patel
- Shahdol - ST: Rajesh Nandini Singh
- Jabalpur: Vivek Tankha
- Balaghat: Ms Heena Kaware
- Chhindwara: Kamal Nath
- Bhopal: PC Sharma
- Dewas - SC: Sajjan Kumar Verma
- Ujjain - SC: Prem Chand Guddu
- Mandsour: Ms Meenakshi Nataraja
- Ratlam - ST: Kantilal Bhuriya
- Indore: Saiyanarayan Patel
- Khargone - ST: Ramesh Patel
- Khandwa: Arun Yadav
- Betul - ST: Rahul Chaudhary
*In a major blow to the Congress, party's Lok Sabha candidate from Bhind, Retired IAS, Bhagirath Prasad on Sunday March 09,2014 joined the BJP
Maharashtra(13)
- Nandurbar - ST: Manikrao H Gavit
- Dhule: Amrishbhai Rasikbhai Patel
- Ramtek - SC: Mukul Wasnik
- Nagpur: Vilas Mutiemwar
- Mumbai North: Sanjay B Nirupam
- Mumbai North - West: Gurudas Kamath
- Mumbai North - Central: Priya Sunil Duti
- Mumbai South - Central: Eknathrao Gaikawad
- Mumbai South: Mllind Murli Deora
- Shiroi - SC: Bhausaheb Wakchaure
- Solapur - SC: Sushil Kumar Shinde
- Sangli: Pratik Prakashbapu Patil
- Ratnagiri - Sindhudurg: Dr Nilesh Nr Rane
Manipur(02)
- Inner Manipur: Dr Thokchom Meinya
- Outer Manipur - ST: Thangso Baite
Meghalaya(01)
- Tura - ST: Zenith Sangma
Mizoram(01)
- Mizoram - ST: C L Ruala
Orissa(09)
- Keonjhar - ST: Madhav Sardar
- Jajpur - SC: Ashok Das
- Dhenkanal: Sudhir Kumar Samal
- Bolangir: Sarat Patnaik
- Cuttak: Aparajita Mohanty
- Puri: Sucharita Mohanty
- Bhubaneshwar: Bijay Mohanty
- Berhampur: Chandra Sekhar Sahu
- Koraput - ST: Dr Giridhar Gamang
Punjab(04)
- Khadoor Sahib: Harminder Singh Gill
- Anandpur Sahib: Ravneet Singh Bitiu
- Sangrur: Vijay Inder Singla
- Patiala: Preneet Kaur
Rajasthan(06)
- Bikaner - SC: Shankar Pannu
- Sikar: PS Jat
- Alwar: Jitendra Singh
- Barmer: Harish Choudhary
- Chitiorgarh: Dr Girija Vyas
- Kota: Ijayraj Singh
Tripura
- Tripura West: Prof Arunoday Saha
- Tripura East - ST: Sachitra Debbarma
Uttar Pradesh(50):
- Saharan Pur: Imran Masood
- Muzaffarnagar: Surajsingh Verma
- Ram Pur: Kazim Ali Khan (Naved Miyan)
- Meerut: Dayananad Gupta
- Aligarh: Ch Bijendrasingh
- Agra - SC: Upendrasingh Jatav
- Aonla: Saleem Iqbal Sherwani
- Bareilly: Praveensingh Aron
- Pillbhit: Sanjaykapoor
- Shahjahanpur - SC: Chetram
- Kheri: Zafarali Naqvi
- Dhaurahra: Jitin Prasada
- Sitapur: Vai5hali Ali
- Hardoi - SC: Sarveshkumar Jansevak
- Misrikh - SC: Om Prakashrawat
- Unnao: Annu Tandon
- Mohanlalganj - SC: Narendra Gautam
- Raebareli: Sonia Gandhi
- Amethi: Rahul Gandhi
- Sultanpur: Amita Singh
- Pratapgarh: Ratna Singh
- Farrukhabad: Salman Khurshid
- Kanpur: Sriprakash Jaiswal
- Akbarpur: Rajaram Pal
- Jalaun - SC: Vijay Chaudhary
- Jhansi: Pradeepjain Aditya
- Hamirpur: Jaywant Singh
- Banda: Viveksingh
- Fatehpur: Usha Maurya
- Phulpur: Mohammad Kaif
- Barabanki - SC: PL Punia
- Faizabad: Dr Nirmal Khatri
- Bahraichsc: Kamal Kishore
- Shrawasti: Vinay Kumar Pandey
- Gonda: Beni Prasadverma
- Basti: Sanjay Jaiswal
- Maharajganj: Harshwardhansingh
- Gorakhpur: Ashtabhujatiwari
- Kushi Nagar: RPN Singh
- Deoria: Sabha Kunwar Kushwaha
- Bansgaon - SC: Dr Sanjaykumar
- Lalganjsc: Ballbihari Babu
- Azamgarh: Arvind Jaiswal
- Ghosi: Rashtrakunwar Singh
- Salempur: Bhola Pandey
- Ballia: Sudha Rai
- Jaunpur: Ravi Kishan
- Ghazipur: Mohd Maqsood Khan
- Bhadohi: Sartaj Imam
- Robertsganj - SC: Bhagwati Prasad Chaudhary
West Bengal(17)
- Cooch Behar - SC: Keshab Ray
- Alipurduars - ST: Josef Munda
- Jalpaiguri - SC: Dr Sukhbilas Verma
- Raiganj: Deepa Dasmunshi
- Maldaha Uttar: Mausam Noor
- Maldaha Dakshin: AH Khan Choudhury
- Jangipur: Abhijeet Mukherjee
- Baharampur: Adhir Ranjan Choudhary
- Murshidabad: Abdul Mannan Hossain
- Ranaghat - SC: Pratap Roy
- Barasat: Rizul Ghoshal
- Jaynagar - SC: Arnab Roy
- Diamond Harbour: Mohmd Qumaruzzan Qumar
- Kolkata Uttar: Soumendra Nath Mitra
- Uluberia: Asit Mitra
- Purulia: Nepal Mahto
- Birbhum: Syed Siraj Jimmia
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