{"id":25355,"date":"2024-04-13T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/congress-list-its-vikramaditya-singh-vs-kangana-in-mandi-manish-tewari-to-contest-from-chandigarh-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T17:51:45","slug":"congress-list-its-vikramaditya-singh-vs-kangana-in-mandi-manish-tewari-to-contest-from-chandigarh-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/congress-list-its-vikramaditya-singh-vs-kangana-in-mandi-manish-tewari-to-contest-from-chandigarh-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress List: It\u2019s Vikramaditya Singh vs Kangana in Mandi; Manish Tewari to contest from Chandigarh &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-524524\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday announced the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections after a meeting of the party\u2019s Central Election Committee held here.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the Congress has fielded its sitting legislator from the Shimla Rural seat, Vikramaditya Singh, who\u2019s the son of six-time Himachal Chief Minister late Virbhadra Singh, against BJP\u2019s Kangana Ranaut in Mandi. The seat is held by Vikramaditya Singh\u2019s mother Pratibha Singh, who won the bypoll in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The party has also fielded Vinod Sultanpuri from the Shimla (reserved) seat.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes the names of two candidates from Himachal Pradesh, nine from Odisha, four from Gujarat, and one for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has given the ticket for the Chandigarh seat to its sitting MP from Punjab\u2019s Anandpur Sahib, Manish Tewari. The former Union Minister will take on Sanjay Tandon of the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the Central Election Committee was attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and AICC General Secretary K.C. Venugopal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday announced the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections after a meeting of the party\u2019s Central Election Committee held here. Accordingly, the Congress has fielded its sitting legislator from the Shimla Rural seat, Vikramaditya Singh, who\u2019s the son of six-time Himachal Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25357,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions\/25357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}