Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress Fields Ajay Rai Against PM Modi From Varanasi | Full 4th Candidate List

Congress on Saturday released its fourth list of candidates for Lok Sabha elections 2024 with 45 names including Karti Chidambaram, Manickam Tagore, Digvijay Singh, and Ajay Rai, who has been fielded from Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In the fourth list, Congress has named Lok Sabha election candidates for Assam, Andaman, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal.

Meanwhile the party left Rajasthan's Nagaur Lok Sabha constituency for Hanuman Beniwal's Rashtriya Loktantrik Party.

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For Uttar Pradesh, where the party is in alliance with the Samajwadi Party and is contesting on 17 seats, the Congress announced candidates for nine seats.

Newly joined Congress leader Danish Ali has also been fielded from Uttar Pradesh's Amroha seat for the upcoming elections along with unit chief Ajay Rai from Varanasi, Imran Masood from Saharanpur and Alok Mishra from Kanpur.

Among the known faces the party fielded Karti Chidambaram from Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga, Manickam Tagore from Virudhnagar, S Jothimani from Karur and Congress veteran Digvijay Singh from Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh.

With this, the Congress has now declared a total of 183 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.