The names of Haryana Congress chief and Rajya Sabha member Kumari Selja and former state unit chief Ashok Tanwar are not on this list
New Delhi: Last night on Wednesday Indian National Congress released its list for 84 candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections, fielding all its sitting MLAs except one.
Senior leader and former chief minister Bhupinder Hooda will contest from his Garhi Sampla-Kiloi seat, while the Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala will contest from his Kaithal Assembly constituency.
In the Haryana Assembly, Out of the 17 sitting MLAs the party fielded 16, barring Renuka Vishnoi who represented the Hansi constituency.
INC COMMUNIQUE
The Central Election Committee has selected following candidates for the ensuing general elections to the Legislative Assembly of HARYANA. pic.twitter.com/sgAvNzI5jP
— INC Sandesh (@INCSandesh) October 2, 2019
The former chief minister of Haryana late Bhajan Lal fielded both the sons in the state elections, by Congress with Kuldeep Vishnoi from Adampur, in Hisar, and his brother and former deputy chief minister Chander Mohan from the Panchkula seat which he earlier represented.
The former chief minister Bansi Lal son and the daughter-in-law of have also been given party tickets, with Ranveer Mahindra fielded from the Badhra seat and Kiran Chaudhary from the Tosham seat.
Former Assembly speaker Kuldeep Sharma has been fielded from the Ganaur Assembly seat, while another former minister, Geeta Bhukkal, has been fielded from the Jhajjar reserved constituency.
Former minister Anand Singh Dangi has been fielded from his traditional Meham constituency.
The names of Haryana Congress chief Selja and former state unit chief Ashok Tanwar are not on this list.
The Haryana Assembly election will be held on October 21 for 90 seats and results will be declared on October 24.
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