Surathkal: Mangaluru Police on Friday arrested two people who were allegedly trying to sell MDM Drugs to the students near Surathkal Light House and Beach on a public road here in Suratkal.

The arrested accused have been identified as Mohammed Muzammil (40), a resident of Surathkal’s Krishnapura and Mohammed Sharif (40), a resident of Jokkabettu.

According to the reports the accused were selling MDM drugs at Surathkal Beach and Light House in a white car since Thursday morning. Working on a tip-off Special Crime Branch team raided the spot and nabbed the accused.

The raiding team seized 11 gram of MDM drug worth Rs. 30, 000/-, a white colour car worth four lakh rupees, cash Rs. 10,950 and four mobile phones from the two accused.

A case in this regard has been registered at Surathkal Police Station.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.