Lok Sabha Polls 2024 : Congress to release first candidate list soon, Rahul Gandhi may contest from Wayanad

The Congress party will soon release its first list of candidates from about ten states and union territories for the Lok Sabha polls 2024.

The list is likely to feature names including that of Rahul Gandhi whose name was cleared from in Kerala by the party's C (CEC) which had its first meeting in the national capital on Thursday.

"I believe the announcement of candidates from the states that were discussed during yesterday's meeting, will be done today or tomorrow," Jairam Ramesh Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications told news agency ANI.

The CEC meeting was chaired by party chief and attended by senior leaders including Sonia Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting virtually from Gujarat. The CEC, which is meeting again on Monday, has also cleared names of 11 candidates from Karnataka. 

The meeting also decided cleared the names of former Chhattisgarh chief minister from Rajnandgaon seat, former minister Tamardwaj Sahu from Mahasamund and Jyotsna Mahant from Korba seat in Chhattisgarh.

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Wayanad MP's name was suggested for re-election by the party's screening committee in Kerala. His candidature from Amethi is unclear yet because candidates from Uttar Pradesh were not discussed in the CEC's Thursday meeting. The Communist Party of India (CPI), has fielded senior party leader from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.

Rahul won Wayanad in 2019 and by a record margin. He, however, lost Amethi, the erstwhile Congress bastion in Uttar Pradesh, to .

Among other names, Thiruvananthapuram MP, Shashi Tharoor's name has also been cleared for re-election by the CEC. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

The Congress party is contesting 2024 Lok Sabha polls as