The Congress announced its first list of 39 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Friday. Last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delcared candidates for 195 of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats. The first list of both the party included names of some big-wigs and party stalwarts.
The Congress’ first list released on Friday includes names of Rahul Gandhi, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, DK Suresh and Shashi Tharoor.
Out of the total 39 Congress candidates, 15 were from Kerala, seven from Karnataka, six from Chhattisgarh, four from Telangana, two from Meghalaya and one each from Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and Lakshwadeep.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s first list released on March 2 had names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani.
There are seats where both the Congress and the BJP have announced candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
BJP VS Congress first list: Here’s a look at who will contest against whom:
| S No. | Lok Sabha constituency | BJP candidate | |
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | Rajeev Chandrasekhar | Shashi Tharoor |
| 2 | Champa | Kamlesh Jangde |
Shivkumar Dahariya Jangir |
| 3 | Korba | Saroj Pandey | |
| 4 | Rajnandgaon | Santosh Pandey | Bhupesh Baghel |
| 5 | Durg | Vijay Baghel | Rajendra Sahu |
| 6 | Raipur | Brijmohan Agarwal | |
| 7 | Mahasamund | Roop Kumari Choudhary | |
| 8 | Kasaragod | ML Ashwini | |
| 9 | Kannur | C Raghunath | K Sudhakaran |
| 10 | Vadakara | Prafulla Krishna | Shafi Parambil |
| 11 | Kozhikode | MT Ramesh | MK Raghavan |
| 12 | Palakkad | C Krishnakumar | VK Sreekandan |
| 13 | Thrissur | Suresh Gopi | |
| 14 | Alappuzha | Sobha Surendran | KC Venugopal |
| 15 | Attingal | V Muraleedharan | Adoor Prakash |
| 16 | Pathanamthitta | Anil K Antony | Anto Antony |
| 17 | Zahirabad | BB Patil | |
| 18 | Tripura West | Biplab Kumar Deb |
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Published: 08 Mar 2024, 09:31 PM IST