The Congress screening committee on Monday cleared the first batch of four candidates for the April 23 Lok Sabha elections in Kerala.
Accordingly, Shashi Tharoor, M.K. Raghavan and Kodikkunnil Suresh will seek re-election from Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode and Mavelikara respectively, while K. Sudhakaran, a former MP of Kannur, will contest from the seat again.
The screening committee meeting had the task of finalising the list of candidates for the 16 seats that the party would contest in the State. The meeting could not make much headway mainly because of the internal issues in the Kerala Congress (M) related to the lone seat that the party would be contesting.