Rajya Sabha Elections: Congress released the list of 7 candidates, along with Kharge, Pawan Kheda and Mansoor Ali are also candidates from Karnataka.

New Delhi, June 4. After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress has also released the list of its candidates for Rajya Sabha elections 2026. According to a press release issued by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) late on Thursday night, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the names of seven candidates from five states. In this sequence, the party has expressed confidence in the leaders active in the organization and parliamentary politics.

According to the Congress list, party president Mallikarjun Kharge, national spokesperson Pawan Kheda and senior leader Mansoor Ali Khan have been made Rajya Sabha candidates from Karnataka. The three leaders are considered prominent faces of the party and their names were already discussed in political circles.

The party has made senior leader Meenakshi Natarajan its candidate from Madhya Pradesh, while the party has once again expressed confidence in Neeraj Dangi from Rajasthan. The party leadership believes that the organizational experience and political activism of both the leaders will prove important for the party in Parliament.

Praveen Chakraborty has been made the candidate from Tamil Nadu, who is counted among the prominent faces associated with the party’s policies and economic matters. Pranab Jha has been given ticket from Jharkhand. In fact, the party has also taken care of regional balance and political representation in the selection of candidates.

The Congress President, Shri @khargehas approved the candidature of the following persons as Congress candidates to contest the biennial/bye-elections to the Council of States from the states mentioned against their names pic.twitter.com/4x4cQNB0kb

— Congress (@INCIndia) June 4, 2026

AICC released the official list

The list of candidates was prepared by Congress General Secretary K.C. Issued by Venugopal. The party has expressed hope that all the candidates will perform well in the Rajya Sabha elections and will strengthen the voice of the Congress in the Upper House of Parliament. With the announcement of the candidates, political activities are likely to intensify in the respective states.

Kheda is contesting elections for a House for the first time.

Kharge is also currently a member of the Upper House from his home state. He is also the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha. Kheda is contesting elections for the House for the first time. Mansoor Ali Khan, former Union Minister. Rehman is the son of Khan and has been active in Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee in different roles for a long time. He was the Congress candidate from Bengaluru Central constituency in the last Lok Sabha elections, however he faced defeat.

Talking about former Madhya Pradesh MP Meenakshi Natarajan, she is currently the party’s Telangana in-charge. The tenure of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in Rajya Sabha is ending this month. However, he had already expressed his desire not to go to Rajya Sabha.

of the upper house 24 for seats 18 Elections will be held in June

It is noteworthy that elections for 24 seats of the Upper House of Parliament will be held on June 18. Elections for these Rajya Sabha seats will be held in those 10 states where the tenure of the existing members is ending on different dates between June 21 and July 19.

Rajya Sabha elections will be held on four seats each in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, three seats each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two seats in Jharkhand and one seat each in Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram. The last date for filing nominations is June 8.