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Sibal, Jogi, Azhar in Cong list; Kalmadi replaced by Kadam

New Delhi: Scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi was tonight denied ticket by Congress which fielded young leader Vishwajeet Kadam in his place as it released the third list of 58 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls naming



Two Maharashtra ministers Sanjay Deotale and Rajendra Gavit have been fielded from Chandrapur in Vidarbha region and Palghar in Konkan region.

Five sitting members of Delhi were renominated—Union ministers Kapil Sibal (Chandni Chowk) and Krishna Tirath (North West Delhi), Sandeep Dikshit (East Delhi), Jai Prakash Agarwal (North East Delhi) and Congress General Secretary Ajay Maken from New Delhi.

With today's list, the total candidates declared by Congress come to 318.

One candidate has been replaced with Pankan Aggarwal brought in from Muzaffarnagar in place of Suraj S Verma.

Former Bihar DGP Aashish Ranjan Sinha is being fielded from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's stronghold of Nalanda. 

Sinha belongs to the Kurmi community having dominant presence in the constituency.

Kadam is the president of the Youth Congress in Maharashtra and is son of senior minister Patangrao Kadam who hails from Sangli district.