Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will again contest from Kerala’s Wayanad, sources said.
The meeting is decide candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024. Candidates for seven states of North East, Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Delhi were discussed in the meeting.
Sources said member of parliament Shashi Tharoor’s name was also cleared from Thiruvananthapuram. BJP has fielded Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar from the seat in Kerala.
Chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, the committee also includes former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi, besides AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, Ambika Soni, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and T S Singhdeo, among others. Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy was also in New Delhi to attend the CEC meeting.
The party is likely to declare its first list of candidates soon after the CEC meeting to enable the candidate to prepare for poll campaign.
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