The Congress party on Thursday announced candidates for 15 Lok Sabha seats, including four in Gujarat, and 11 in Uttar Pradesh, ahead of the upcoming elections.
The Congress said in a release that its Central Election Committee had selected candidates for four seats in Gujarat for the ensuing parliamentary elections. The party nominated three-term Rajya Sabha MP Raju Parmar as its candidate from Ahmedabad West (SC) seat, presently held by BJP's Dr Kirit Solanki.
On expected lines, former union minister Bharatsinh Solanki was named as the candidate from Anand seat. Solanki had won from the seat in 2004 and 2009, but had lost in 2014 elections. He was president of Gujarat Congress at the time of 2017 assembly elections, but had resigned after the party's loss.