The Congress party on Thursday announced a list of candidates of 3 Lok Sabha constituencies and 45 assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh. According to the list issued by party general secretary Mukul Wasnik, the party has given ticket from Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh to Ramna Kumari Pedda, Vijayawada to N Narasimha Rao and Nandayal to Lakshmi Narasimha Yadav. With this, the Congress has named its candidates for all the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.

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The party has released this seventh list of Lok Sabha candidates. Earlier, Congress has announced a total of 146 candidates for Uttar Pradesh and some other states including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Polling in the state will be held on April 11. Both the Lok Sabha and legislative assembly polls will be held in the state simultaneously on this day. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.

The Congress leader said, "People have rejected the BJP leadership. They are presenting their report card at the time of election but they are not speaking anything to fulfill the promises made to the people during the last Lok Sabha election because they (BJP) have not done anything for the public. Punia alleged that BJP was only engaged in harassment of people. Public works such as demonetization, GST did not do anything to the people, but because of demonetization, people had to lose their jobs.

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