Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara, Nakul Nath, son of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, is amongst these Lok Sabha candidates whose names have been cleared by the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Congress on March 11.
The CEC is alleged to have mentioned round 63 seats throughout a number of States, together with Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan. About 40 names have been cleared.
The assembly of the ballot panel, presided by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, was attended by Sonia Gandhi, Okay.C. Venugopal, T.S. Singhdeo amongst others. The subsequent assembly of the CEC is on March 15.
There isn’t any official phrase from the get together, however sources instructed The Hindu that former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s son, Vaibhav Gehlot, has been cleared for the Jalore Lok Sabha constituency.
Their inclusions are vital as former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, after the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot debacle, blamed the senior leaders for focussing on the constituencies of their sons as a substitute of seeking to win their respective States. In the course of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, each Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan had Congress governments.
Whereas the Nath junior received the Chhindwara seat in 2019, Gehlot junior has misplaced from their stronghold of Jodhpur.
The CEC additionally mentioned all of the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam. Among the senior leaders, together with get together Deputy Chief within the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, may very well be seeking to contest from new seat due to delimitation in Assam that resulted in redrawing the boundaries of their present seats.
Mr. Gogoi’s present seat of Kaliabor has been redrawn and is now often known as Kaziranga. That’s the reason the get together is alleged to be fielding him from Jorhat, his father the late Tarun Gogoi’s hometown, or the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat.
In Uttarakhand, whereas the get together is eager to subject senior leaders, at the least three of them have expressed their unwillingness, mentioned sources.
Not like Chhattisgarh, the place senior leaders like Bhupesh Baghel and Tamradhwaj Sahu grew to become candidates, senior leaders and former Chief Ministers corresponding to Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh and Harish Rawat won’t be contesting the polls.
On March 7, the CEC had cleared 39 names, together with Mr. Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram and Mr. Venugopal from Alappuzha in Kerala.