Karnataka Elections 2023: Full List of Congress Candidates

Counting for 224 Assembly seats underway, follow our Karnataka Elections 2023 Results Live coverage by clicking on the link.

The Karnataka assembly elections for 2023 will take place in a single phase on May 10, 2023. The counting of votes and announcement of results will be done on May 13, 2023. Several parties, including Congress, BJP, JD (S), AAP, and others have announced their list of candidates for this election.

Congress released its sixth and final list of candidates on Thursday. The party has fielded Mohammed Shalem from Raichur, BV Rajeev Gowda from Sidlaghatta, HP Sridhar Gowda from Arkalgud, S Anand Kumar from C V Raman Nagar (SC) and Inayath Ali from Mangalore City North. The party also announced its fifth list of candidates consisting of three names.

Earlier, Congress released its first list of candidates on March 25, 2023. This list was finalised by the Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) and had a total of 124 candidates chosen for each constituency.

Then, the Congress CEC finalised and released a second list of candidates with 42 names followed by a third list with 43 names. Overall, the party has announced 223 candidates and has given one seat to Sarvodaya Karnataka Party.

Former Karnataka CM and Opposition leader Siddaramaiah will be contesting from the Varuna constituency. Meanwhile, DK Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress president, will contest from Kanakapura.

Congress president Mallikarujun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge is chosen to contest for the Chitapur SC seat. On the other hand, the seat in Melukote has been given to Darshan Puttannaiah of the Sarvodaya Karnataka Party. Check out the full Congress list of candidates here:

(Source: Indian National Congress via Twitter)