Cong 7th list: UP chief Raj Babbar gets to change his seat

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 23

Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar on Friday got to change his seat for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as the party declared the seventh list of 35 candidates.

Babbar, a former Lok Sabha MP and a sitting Rajya Sabha MP, had been nominated as the party candidate from Moradabad.

He has now been shifted to Fatehpur Sikri after he asked for a change of segment and a section of party leaders felt Moradabad should be given to a Muslim candidate.

Congress has named Imran Pratapgarhiya as the new candidate from Moradabad.

Also, from Udhampur, the Congress named former minister Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh who recently joined the party.

Raman Bhalla will fight from Jammu and the Srinagar seat has been left to the National Conference.

Former Women and Child Development Renuka Choudhry will contest from Khammam, a seat she represented earlier.

EVKS Elangovan, former Tamil Nadu Congress president, will contest from Theni.

The list features four candidates from Chhattisgarh, three from Jammu and Kashmir, five from Maharashtra, two from Odisha, eight from Tamil Nadu, one from Telangana, nine from Uttar Pradesh and Puducherry.