{"id":310995,"date":"2019-04-03T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310995"},"modified":"2019-04-03T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:21:19","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-congress-releases-20-candidates-list-pawan-bansal-from-chandigarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-elections-congress-releases-20-candidates-list-pawan-bansal-from-chandigarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections: Congress releases 20 candidates list, Pawan Bansal from Chandigarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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=\"447\" height=\"343\" 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: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress Central Election Committee on Tuesday night released 20 candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.4 from Gujarat, 3 from Jharkhand, 2 from Karnataka, 2 from Odisha, 1 from Himachal Pradesh, 1 from D&amp;N Haveli, and 6 names from Punjab. Pawan Kumar Bansal to be Congress candidate from Chandigarh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Punjab, Congress has fielded Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur constituency, Santokh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Gurjit Singh Aujla will contest from Amritsar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union\u00a0Minister\u00a0Subodh Kant Sahay\u00a0would contest from Ranchi, Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party has fielded Pawan Kajal from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress Central Election Committee announces the next list of candidates for the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha,\u201d party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has been re-nominated from Chandigarh. He had lost in 2014 to BJP\u2019s Kirron Kher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress Central Election Committee on Tuesday night released 20 candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.4 from Gujarat, 3 from Jharkhand, 2 from Karnataka, 2 from Odisha, 1 from Himachal Pradesh, 1 from D&amp;N Haveli, and 6 names from Punjab. Pawan Kumar Bansal to be Congress candidate from Chandigarh. In Punjab, Congress has fielded Sunil [&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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310995"}],"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=310995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310996,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310995\/revisions\/310996"}],"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=310995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}