{"id":310600,"date":"2019-03-17T04:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310600"},"modified":"2019-03-17T04:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T04:22:34","slug":"congress-releases-fourth-list-of-lok-sabha-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-releases-fourth-list-of-lok-sabha-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress releases fourth list of Lok Sabha candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress on Saturday night released its fourth list of 27 candidates, including 12 from Kerala two from Arunachal Pradesh, five from Chhattisgarh, seven from\u00a0Uttar Pradesh\u00a0and one from\u00a0Andaman and The Nicobar Islands for the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the Congress denied party ticket to sitting MP and former Union minister K V Thomas from the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party fielded its sitting MPs and former Union ministers Shashi Tharoor and K Suresh from Thiruvananthapuram and Mavelikkara Lok Sabha seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress replaced Thomas, the sitting member from Ernakulam with young legislator Hibi Eden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party fielded former\u00a0Arunachal Pradesh\u00a0Chief\u00a0Minister\u00a0Nabam Tuki\u00a0from Arunachal West constituency and former\u00a0MP\u00a0Harender Malik\u00a0from Kairana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party is contesting on 16 seats of the total 20 seats in Kerala. It announced 12 of its candidates. While most of its eight sitting MPs have been re-nominated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Saturday night released its fourth list of 27 candidates, including 12 from Kerala two from Arunachal Pradesh, five from Chhattisgarh, seven from\u00a0Uttar Pradesh\u00a0and one from\u00a0Andaman and The Nicobar Islands for the Lok Sabha elections. However, the Congress denied party ticket to sitting MP and former Union minister K V Thomas from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,11149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310601,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310600\/revisions\/310601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}