Cong announces LS candidates for 2 Gujarat seats

The party has fielded Sher Khan Abdul Shakur Pathan from Bharuch and Babubhai Katara from Dahod

Shobhit Kalra
Published on: 4 April 2019 6:13 AM GMT
Cong announces LS candidates for 2 Gujarat seats
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Cong announces LS candidates for 2 Gujarat seats

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday announced the names of two candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, taking the total number of seats on which it has declared its candidates to 357.

The party has fielded Sher Khan Abdul Shakur Pathan from Bharuch and Babubhai Katara from Dahod (ST).

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The announcement comes days after the Gujarat Congress unit requested senior party leader Ahmed Patel to contest the Lok Sabha poll from Bharuch.

Patel, currently a Rajya Sabha member, won from Bharuch thrice, in 1977, 1980 and 1984, but lost to BJP's Chandubhai Deshmukh in 1991, after which he did not contest from the seat.

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The party on Thursday also announced that Kantilal Muljibhai Patel as its candidate for the by-election to the Unjha assembly seat in Gujarat.

(PTI)

Shobhit Kalra

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