Nine Cong candidates announced for Rajya Sabha biennial polls

NEW DELHI: Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and Congress spokesperson Renuka Choudhary are among the nine candidates announced by the party tonight for biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha.

Chiranjeevi and Choudhary are candidates from Andhra Pradesh as also Goverdhan Reddy. One candidate from Andhra Pradesh is yet to be announced, a party release said here.

Pradeep Balmuchu has been made candidate from Jharkhand while Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K K Rehman Khan has been renominated from Karnataka, Praveen Rashtrapal from Gujarat and Shadilal Batra from Harayana.

Satyabrat Chaturvedi, a retiring member from Uttarakhand, has been nominated from his home state of Madhya Pradesh while Mahendra Singh Mehra is the party nominee from Uttarakhand where the party is facing a political crisis.

In another announcement, Congress nominated ex-MLA Abdul Mannan from West Bengal.