Congress announces second list of 43 candidates for Lok Sabha polls
The Congress released its second candidate list for the Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday.
Party General Secretary K C Venugopal, framing the contest as one between the downtrodden and crony capitalists, announced 43 candidates across states, including Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
Gaurav Gogoi will contest from Assam's Jorhat, Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath will contest from Chhindwara.
The party's Central Election Committee (CEC) had convened on Monday to finalise candidates, shortly after releasing its first list for the polls.
Earlier, the Congress had unveiled 39 candidates for the upcoming elections, including Rahul Gandhi, who is slated to contest from Kerala's Wayanad constituency again. Bhupesh Baghel, the former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, has been nominated to contest from Rajnandgaon. Additionally, AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal will be contesting from Alappuzha in Kerala, while Shashi Tharoor has been renominated from Thiruvananthapuram.
Key members of the CEC include party president Mallikarjun Kharge, former presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, T S Singhdeo, and Mohammad Jawaid, among others.
Some of the candidates named include:
Assam
Dubri: Raqibul Hussain
Barpeta: Dip Bayan
Kokrajhar: Gorjon Basumatary
Diphu: Joy Ram Ingle
Assam Jorhat: Gaurav Gogoi
Gujarat
Ahmedabad East: Rohan Gupta
Madhya Pradesh
Satna: Siddarth Kushwaha
Chhindwara: Nakul Nath
Rajasthan
Bikaner: Govind Ram Meghwal
Brijender ola: Jhunjhunu
Bharatpur: Sanjana Yadav
Jodhpur: Karan Singh
Jalore: Vaibhav Gehlot
Udaipur: Tarachand Meena
Uttarakhand
Garhwal: Ganesh Godiyal
Congress releases the second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
— ANI (@ANI) March 12, 2024
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat, Assam. Nakul Nath to contest from Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara. Rahul Kaswa to contest from Rajasthan's Churu and Vaibhav Gehlot to contest from… pic.twitter.com/oms2aliTqF
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
