Former BJP MLA, Prahlad Gunjal, who recently joined the Congress party, will take on outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in Rajasthan’s Kota Lok Sabha seat, as the Congress announced its sixth list of candidates on March 25.
With five names in the fresh list, the Congress has, so far, announced a total of 190 candidates.
In Rajasthan, the party also fielded Ramchandra Choudhary from Ajmer, Sudarshan Rawat from Rajsamand and Damodar Gurjar from Bhilwara.
In the Tirunelveli seat of Tamil Nadu, Congress announced C Robert Bruce as the candidate.
The party also announced the name of Tharahai Cuthbert will contest the bye-election from the Vilavancode constituency in the State.
Tamil Nadu will vote on all 39 Lok Sabha seats on April 19.
The 25 Lok Sabha seats of Rajasthan will go to polls in two phase; voting on 12 seats will be held in the the first phase will be held on April 19, while 13 seats will go to polls on April 26.
The party has gone all out to break its record of the 2019 election, in which it failed to win a single seat.
Mr Gunjal, who had joined the Congress last Thursday in the presence of former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra, was the MLA from Kota North twice but had lost the last Assembly polls.
A close aide of former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, his presence in the Congress is expected to benefit in the Hadoti region that includes districts like Bundi, Baran, Jhalawar and Kota.
