Congress fields Kamal Nath's son Nakul from Chhindwara

Bhopal, Apr 4 The Congress Thursday announced 12 more Lok Sabha candidates from Madhya Pradesh which included Nakul Nath, son of Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

Nakul Nath will contest from his father's constituency, Chhindwara.

Kamal Nath himself was handled from Chhindwara Assembly situate, where by-decision is to be held alongside the Lok Sabha surveys.

The get together seat was vacated by Congress' Deepak Saxena after Kamal Nath, the sitting Chhindwara MP, took over as chief minister and consequently needed to get elected to the state legislature.

With this list, the Congress has so far declared contender for 21 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh.

Nakul Nath will be hoping to his dad who has represented Chhindwara in the Lok Sabha ten times.

Former state Congress chief Arun Yadav, also a former Union minister, has been nominated from Khandwa, while former Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh, who had lost Assembly election from Churhat a year ago, has been fielded from Sidhi Lok Sabha seat.

All India Congress Committee Legal Cell Chairman Vivek Tankha will contest from Jabalpur, where he will confront state BJP president Rakesh Singh, the sitting MP. Singh had crushed Tankha in Jabalpur in 2014.

Other names in the Congress' rundown included Prabhu Singh Thakur (from Sagar), Pratap Singh Lodhi (Damoh), Rajaram Tripathi (Satna), Siddharth Tiwari (Rewa), Kamal Maravi (Mandla), society vocalist Prahlad Tipaniya (Dewas (SC)), Babulal Malviya (Ujjain (SC)) and Dr Govind Muzaalda (Khargone (ST)).

The Congress presently can't seem to announce candidates from some key seats including Vidisha, Gwalior and Indore.

Nor has the party reported its candidate from Guna, spoken to by AICC general secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Guna and Chhindwara were the only seats won by the Congress in the state in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.