<p>Congress on Sunday fielded senior leader B K Hariprasad from Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka as the party released its ninth list of candidates for the upcoming elections.<br /><br />Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti will contest from Sivaganga seat, while Tariq Anwar, who quit the NCP to return to the Congress, will be in the fray from Katihar in Bihar.<br /><br />In Maharashtra, AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik and AICC in-charge of Gujarat Rajeev Satav have opted out of the Lok Sabha contest.<br /><br />Former IAS officer Kishor Gajbhiye will contest from Wasnik’s Ramtek Lok Sabha seat, while former Shiv Sena leader Subhash Wankhede has been fielded from Hingoli.<br /><br />Satav had defeated Wankhede in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of over 1632 votes.<br /><br />Hariprasad had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from Bengaluru South against Ananth Kumar in 1999.<br /><br />Kumar had first won the seat in 1996 never lost it, making the constituency a BJP bastion.<br /><br />BJP is yet to announce its candidate for Bengaluru South. Late Ananth Kumar’s wife Tejaswini has expressed her keenness to fight from this segment.<br /><br />Congress also changed its candidate for the Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat, which was at a centre of a controversy. Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan was unhappy over the decision to field Vinayak Bangade.<br /><br />Suresh Dhanorkar will be the Congress candidate from Chandrapur in place of Bangade.<br /><br />In Purina, Uday Singh, the sitting BJP MP who quit the party earlier this week, will be the Congress candidate.<br /><br />Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally in Purnia on Friday.<br /><br />Senior leader Hidayat Patel will contest from Akola in Maharashtra, while Haji Farooq Mir will be in the fray from Baramulla in J&K.</p>
<p>Congress on Sunday fielded senior leader B K Hariprasad from Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka as the party released its ninth list of candidates for the upcoming elections.<br /><br />Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti will contest from Sivaganga seat, while Tariq Anwar, who quit the NCP to return to the Congress, will be in the fray from Katihar in Bihar.<br /><br />In Maharashtra, AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik and AICC in-charge of Gujarat Rajeev Satav have opted out of the Lok Sabha contest.<br /><br />Former IAS officer Kishor Gajbhiye will contest from Wasnik’s Ramtek Lok Sabha seat, while former Shiv Sena leader Subhash Wankhede has been fielded from Hingoli.<br /><br />Satav had defeated Wankhede in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of over 1632 votes.<br /><br />Hariprasad had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from Bengaluru South against Ananth Kumar in 1999.<br /><br />Kumar had first won the seat in 1996 never lost it, making the constituency a BJP bastion.<br /><br />BJP is yet to announce its candidate for Bengaluru South. Late Ananth Kumar’s wife Tejaswini has expressed her keenness to fight from this segment.<br /><br />Congress also changed its candidate for the Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat, which was at a centre of a controversy. Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan was unhappy over the decision to field Vinayak Bangade.<br /><br />Suresh Dhanorkar will be the Congress candidate from Chandrapur in place of Bangade.<br /><br />In Purina, Uday Singh, the sitting BJP MP who quit the party earlier this week, will be the Congress candidate.<br /><br />Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally in Purnia on Friday.<br /><br />Senior leader Hidayat Patel will contest from Akola in Maharashtra, while Haji Farooq Mir will be in the fray from Baramulla in J&K.</p>
