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Congress fields Chinta Mohan in Tirupati

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, APRIL 6. The Congress yesterday finalised the candidates for 20 Lok Sabha seats across four States. With yesterday's list — the ninth — the party has announced candidates for 345 constituencies. Of the 20 names announced yesterday, 11 are from Andhra Pradesh — a State where candidate selection has run into trouble more than once.

While the central leadership discussed all 20 of the 21 seats going to the polls in the State in the second phase of elections on Sunday night, candidates were announced today only for 11 seats.

And, prominent among those who have made it are the four-time member of Parliament, K.S. Rao, who has been shifted from Machilipatnam to Eluru and the former Union Minister, Chinta Mohan, from Tirupati.

Others in the fray from Andhra Pradesh are U. Arun Kumar (Rajahmundry), Badiga Rama Krishna (Machilipatnam), L. Raj Gopal (Vijayawada), Bala Souri (Tenali), R. Sambasiva Rao (Guntur), Raj Mohan Reddy (Narasaraopet), M. Srinivasulu Reddy (Ongole), A. Sai Pratap (Rajampet) and S.P.Y. Reddy (Nandyal).

This apart, the Congress has decided to field Pinaki Misra, a relative of the former Chief Justice of India, Ranganath Misra, in Puri in Orissa.

Candidates have also been finalised for three seats in Rajasthan: Ved Prakash Gujjar (Bharatpur), Habibur Rahman (Ajmer) and Badri Ram Jakhar (Jodhpur).

Also, the party has finalised candidates for all five seats in Uttaranchal: Vijay Bahuguna, son of the former Chief Minister, H. N. Bahuguna, from Tehri Garhwal; T.P.S. Rawat from Garhwal; Renuka Rawat, wife of the State Pradesh Congress Committee president, Harish Rawat, from Almora; K.C. Singh Bawa from Nainital; and Deepak Kumar from Hardwar.

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