2017 Punjab Assembly elections: Congress releases second list of candidates
The Congress on Friday released the second list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections. The names announced by Congress General Secretary Madhusudan Mistry include Barinderjit Singh Pahra from Gurdaspur.
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday released the second list of 16 candidates for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections. The names announced by Congress General Secretary Madhusudan Mistry include Barinderjit Singh Pahra from Gurdaspur.
Pahra's father Kartar Singh Pahra was an MLA from 1997 until 2002 and he has been working in the constituency for the last several years.
The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Congress had on Tuesday finalised 25 candidates in the second round, but it announced names of only 16 of them.
The party announced the first list of 61 nominees for the Punjab polls last week.
In the first list, the party retained as candidates 31 of its 42 legislators.
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