The CEC meeting was attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal among others. Tribune file
New Delhi, April 13
The Congress on Saturday finalised the names of a few Lok Sabha candidates from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee here.
The CEC meeting for Himachal Pradesh was attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri, state Congress chief Pratibha Singh and AICC in-charge Rajeev Shukla were the others present in the meeting.
The Haryana CEC was attended, besides the top party leaders, by PCC chief Uday Bhan, ex-CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Randeep Surjewala, and Kumari Selja.
The party has finalised the following candidates from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh:
PUNJAB
Gurjit Aujla--Amritsar
Dharamvira Gandhi--Patiala
Amar Singh--Fatehgarh Saheb
Charanjit Channi--Jalandhar
Sukhpal Khaira--Sangrur
Anandpur Saheb seats held over, Sonia Gandhi to take final call
HARYANA
Deepender Hooda from Rohtak, Kumari Selja from Sirsa and Varun Mullana from Ambala
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Vikramaditya Singh from Mandi and Vinod Sultanpuri from Shimla
CHANDIGARH
Manish Tewari
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