Congress indicates candidates list for Karnataka assembly polls will be out soon

I dont know which date they will fix for it, the Congress president said.Wishing people of the state on the occasion of Ugadi, Kharge said may the new year bring a new government in Karnataka.According to Congress sources, the first list comprising about 120 candidates may be out on Thursday afternoon.The sources added that the first list will consist of sitting MLAs and those constituencies where there is less opposition to the candidates among the party workers and also stand a good chance to win the election.

The Congress party's first list of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka assembly election will be released in a day or two, party state president D K Shivakumar said on Wednesday.

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief said initially the plan was to release the list on Wednesday but it has been pushed back to a later date.

''Today, we thought of releasing the list of candidates. Our general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala is here and our national president Mallikarjun Kharge has come to celebrate Ugadi festival. It will be released in a day or two,'' Shivakumar told reporters here.

Meanwhile, Kharge told reporters in Bengaluru that he has no information when the list will be out.

"I don't have information about it (list). Organising secretary K C Venugopal and Mukul Vasnik will release it. I don't know which date they will fix for it," the Congress president said.

Wishing people of the state on the occasion of Ugadi, Kharge said may the new year bring a new government in Karnataka.

According to Congress sources, the first list comprising about 120 candidates may be out on Thursday afternoon.

The sources added that the first list will consist of sitting MLAs and those constituencies where there is less opposition to the candidates among the party workers and also stand a good chance to win the election.

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