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The Congress on Saturday announced the names of 16 candidates for the Lok Sabha election 2024. Himachal Pradesh’s former chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s son 35-year-old Vikramaditya will be replacing his mother – sitting MP Pratibha Singh — as a candidate from the Mandi constituency. Kangana Ranaut is BJP candidate from this constituency.
Manish Tewari will be contesting from Chandigarh against BJP’s Sanjay Tandon who replaced sitting MP Kirron Kher.
The other names announced on Saturday were Ramji Thakor from Mahesana, Himmatsinh Patel from Ahmedabad East, Pareshbhai Dhanani from Rajkot, Naishadh Desai from Navasari, Vinod Sultanpuri from Shimla, Mohan Hembram from Keonjhar, Shrikant Kumar Jena from Balasore, Anant Prasad Sethi from Bhadrak, Anchal Das from Jajpur, Sashmita Behera from Dhenkanal, Sidharth Swarup Das from Kendrapara, Rabindra Kumar Sethy from Jagatsinghpur, Sucharita Mohanty from puri and Yasir Nawa from Bhubaneswar.