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Congress Rajya Sabha candidate list: The party has nominated Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan from Karnataka.
Congress Rajya Sabha candidate list: The party has nominated Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan from Karnataka. [Source: LiveMint, 4 Jun 2026]
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Congress Rajya Sabha candidate list: The party has nominated Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan from Karnataka.
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After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress today announced the names of candidates for the upcoming biennial and bye-elections to the Rajya Sabha. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan have been nominated from Karnataka. The party also named one candidate each for Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand. Here's a list of Congress nominees for the upcoming Rajya Sabha biennial and bypolls. Karnataka: Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera and Mansoor Ali Khan The Rajya Sabha polls for 24 seats in 10 states will be held on 18 June. This includes four seats each in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, three seats each in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two seats in Jharkhand, and one seat each in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Meghalaya. The filing of nominations has begun, and the last date is 8 June. Bypolls to the Upper House for one seat each in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Odisha will also be conducted on the same day. The BJP's central election committee, which released the names of 11 candidates for Rajya Sabha polls in five states, fielded Debashish Samantaray as its candidate from Odisha. The BJP fielded Tai Tagak from Arunachal Pradesh; Rajubhai Shukla, Mukeshbhai Rathwa, Mansingh Parmar and Jitendra Meghjibhai Kanzariya from Gujarat; Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh Agrawal from Madhya Pradesh; A Sharda Devi from Manipur; and Alka Gurjar and Satish Poonia from Rajasthan. BJP has fielded its Manipur President, A Sharda Devi, as its candidate from the state and senior party leader Tai Tagak from Arunachal Pradesh, according to the list released by party national general secretary Arun Singh. The NDA alliance in Andhra Pradesh decided on Thursday to allocate three of the four upcoming Rajya Sabha seats from the state to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), while ally Jana Sena will field a candidate for the remaining seat, PTI reported. The decision was taken at a meeting of NDA constituents, comprising TDP, Jana Sena and BJP, held in Amaravati. "We have decided that TDP will take three Rajya Sabha seats and Jana Sena one," Andhra Pradesh TDP President Palla Srinivasa Rao said after the meeting. Stay updated with the latest Trending, India , World and US news.
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