Lok Sabha polls: Congress announces 34 more candidates, Raj Babbar moved to Fatehpur Sikri

The Congress on Friday released the seventh list of its 34 candidates for the April-May Lok Sabha election and shifted Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Raj Babbar from Moradabad to Fatehpur Sikri, the party said in a statement.

Poet Imran Pratapgarhi has been nominated from Moradabad where Babbar's candidature was announced earlier. It has also changed the candidate in Bijnor Lok Sabha seat where Naseemuddin Siddiqui has been nominated instead of Indira Bhatti. 

The party has fielded former Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury from Khammam in Telangana.

The Congress Central Election Committee announces the seventh list of candidates for the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha pic.twitter.com/ZfJBkQ1Xi3

— Congress (@INCIndia) March 22, 2019

Vikramaditya Singh, the son of former Union Minister Karan Singh, will face Union Minister Jitendra Singh in Udhampur constituency of Jammu and Kashmir. The Srinagar seat in the state has been left for the National Conference, it said. 

The Congress also released a list of 54 candidates for Odisha Assembly election. 

The party had on Thursday announced the names of its candidates for three Lok Sabha constituencies and 45 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.

With the seventh list, the total number of Lok Sabha candidates declared by the Congress so far stands at 181.

(With PTI inputs)