<p>The Congress on Monday fielded Union Minister Namo Narain Meena from Dausa and Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Sunil Kumar Jakhar from Firozpur.<br /><br /></p>.<p>AICC general secretary Madhusudan Mistry released a list of 16 candidates, including Vazhapadi Rama Suganthan from Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu, K Selvaraj from Pollachi and V M Jayakumar from Tiruvallur.<br /><br />Meena, Union Minister of State for Finance, represents Tonk-Sawai Madhopur in the outgoing Lok Sabha. He has been shifted to Dausa as the Congress has fielded former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, which has a sizeable Muslim population. <br />Sanjay Yadav has been fielded from Bharatpur.<br /><br />The two other party candidates from Punjab in the list are Sadhu Singh Dharamsot from Fategarh Sahib and Joginder Singh Panjgrain from Faridkot. Nandagopal Gupta “Nandi”, a BSP leader who joined the Congress last week, has been fielded from Allahabad. In Maharashtra, former Congress MLA Nitin Patil has been fielded from Aurangabad, a seat held by the Shiv Sena for a long time.<br /><br />Dharnidhar Nayak has been fielded from Kendrapara in Orissa, while Razia Ahmed, Pritam Ghosh and Bipin Bora will contest from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar, Hooghly and Bardhaman-Durgapur constituencies respectively.<br /></p>
<p>The Congress on Monday fielded Union Minister Namo Narain Meena from Dausa and Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Sunil Kumar Jakhar from Firozpur.<br /><br /></p>.<p>AICC general secretary Madhusudan Mistry released a list of 16 candidates, including Vazhapadi Rama Suganthan from Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu, K Selvaraj from Pollachi and V M Jayakumar from Tiruvallur.<br /><br />Meena, Union Minister of State for Finance, represents Tonk-Sawai Madhopur in the outgoing Lok Sabha. He has been shifted to Dausa as the Congress has fielded former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, which has a sizeable Muslim population. <br />Sanjay Yadav has been fielded from Bharatpur.<br /><br />The two other party candidates from Punjab in the list are Sadhu Singh Dharamsot from Fategarh Sahib and Joginder Singh Panjgrain from Faridkot. Nandagopal Gupta “Nandi”, a BSP leader who joined the Congress last week, has been fielded from Allahabad. In Maharashtra, former Congress MLA Nitin Patil has been fielded from Aurangabad, a seat held by the Shiv Sena for a long time.<br /><br />Dharnidhar Nayak has been fielded from Kendrapara in Orissa, while Razia Ahmed, Pritam Ghosh and Bipin Bora will contest from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar, Hooghly and Bardhaman-Durgapur constituencies respectively.<br /></p>
