The Congress on Thursday released its first list of candidates for 15 seats in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, naming UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi as the party’s candidate from Rae Bareli and Rahul Gandhi from Amethi. There was no mention of newest Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi in the list of candidates released for the Lok Sabha elections.The Congress released the first list of 15 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday night. Besides the Gandhis, candidates were announced for nine other seats in Uttar Pradesh and four in Gujarat.

The Congress said its Central Election Committee has chosen former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to be the nominee for the Farukkhabad seat in Uttar Pradesh. Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee chief Bharatsinh Solanki will contest from Anand Lok Sabha seat in the state. Former Minister of State for Human Resources JitinPrasada will be the candidate for Dhaurahra seat in Uttar Pradesh, and spokesperson RPN Singh will contest from Kushinagar, the Congress press release said. The Lok Sabha elections are expected to be held in April and May.

Uttar Pradesh sends 80 legislators to Parliament, while Gujarat has 26 seats. The Samajwadi Party, the BahujanSamaj Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal have announced an alliance in Uttar Pradesh, leaving the Congress out – but the alliance will not contest in Amethi and Rae Bareli. In Gujarat, senior Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki will contest from Anand. He had won the Lok Sabha elections from Anand in 2004 and 2009. But he lost to Dilipbhai Patel of the BJP in 2014. Raju Parmar will contest the elections from Ahmedabad West seat, Prashant Patel will contest from Vadodara, and RanjitMohansinhRathwa will contest from Chhota Udaipur seat.

The famous TV actress Shilpa Shinde who played the role of Anguri in the popular comedy show “Bhabhiji Ghar pe Hai” seemed to have joined the Congress party today. Today in front of media, she declared that she wants Rahul Gandhi to be the next Prime Minister of India. It seems she had refused to put forward any words regarding this topic for joining the political party, but through the sources of the party her joining had been rumoured.

Though she have announced about her joining in the political party, Shilpa Shinde did not confirmed yet whether she will take part in Lok Sabha or the State Assembly election this year. Shilpa have stated that because Congress is ruling India since many years, she would like to join this party only. She said that Congress does not discriminate people by their caste or religion for joining the party. While on other hand she said that MNS had always marked her as a Marathi as they prefer such people only.

Last year Shilpa Shinde was declared as the winner of the popular reality show “Bigg Boss 11” and recently she was presented as a guest in The comedy show “Kanpur Waale Khuranas”. She was born in a Marathi family and her father Satyadev Shinde was the judge in High Court who passed away in 2013. Now it had made her fans excited to see her on the political field.

Politics / press conference, Modi can not face the question of his workers: Rahul

Rahul’s Tan: BJP’s Simple Question to Ask a Good Idea
The Congress President re-tweeted the news, claiming that Modi was uncomfortable with the question of BJP worker in Puducherry

new Delhi. Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi bypassing the BJP worker’s question. He said, “Leave the press conference, they (Modi) can not stand in front of the question of BJP workers.

Rahul mentioned an incident in his tweet, which recently happened in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry during the interaction with Modi’s BJP workers. Rahul, while replying to a news story, said, “It is a good idea to take the BJP’s simple question and add simple answers to it.”

BJP worker from Puducherry questioned Modi

In the news that Rahul mentioned, it has been claimed that Modi had recently communicated with the BJP workers of Puducherry. During this time, a worker questioned Modi about the burden of taxes on the middle class. The worker had also demanded to take care of the middle class. According to the report, Modi had sidelined this question.