Congress to field candidate from Lucknow for LS polls

Congress on Tuesday said it will field a candidate from the Lucknow parliamentary constituency, an announcement which coincided with the Supreme Court rejecting Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea to contest the Lok Sabha elections from there.
    
"We will field a candidate from Lucknow," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said here.
    
Earlier, AICC general secretary in-charge of UP Digvijay Singh had said that if Sanjay Dutt contested from Lucknow, the party would not field any candidate against him.

Singhvi said it was putting up a candidate from Lucknow as the alliance with the SP did not work out in UP.
    
Dutt was fielded by the Samajwadi Party as its candidate from Lucknow.
    
Asked who will be the Congress candidate from Lucknow, Singhvi said, "there is a system in place in the party through which candidates are selected."

Dutt's plea was on Tuesday rejected by the Supreme Court which refused to stay his conviction in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts case saying, "It is not a fit case to grant stay of conviction."