Thangso gets ticket for Outer, Meinya for Inner
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 08, 2014:
Putting an end to all speculations, Indian National Congress (INC) has announced both the two sitting MPs of the party from Manipur as the candidates for the upcoming 26th Lok Sabha elections-2014 as well.
In the first list of 194 candidates for the Lok Sabha election announced today, Thangso Baite has been named as the candidate for the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency while Dr Th Meinya for the seat of Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency.
It may be noted here that altogether 12 aspirants, 8 for the Outer seat and four for the Inner seat, applied for the Congress ticket to contest in the ensuring Lok Sabha election.
Among other prominent names figures in the list list of Congress candidate included AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi, who will contest from Rae Bareli, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde from Solapur, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar from Sararam, PL Punia from Barabanki, RPN Singh from Kushinagar, Priya Dutta from Mumbai North Central, Aadhaar Chairman Nandan Nilekani from Bangalore South Constituency, Karuna Shukla (Atal Behari Vajpayee's niece) from Bilaspur, Ranjeet Ranjan (Pappu Yadav's wife) from Supual in Bihar, etc.
Announcing the first list of the 194 party candidates at New Delhi after a crucial meeting of the AICC leaders, Congress spokesperson Madhusudan Mistry said of the 194 candidates, 35 percent are youth and 15 percent are women.