The party today announced the name of 2nd list of candidates for 71 seats after central election committee meeting in New Delhi.

Union Ministers Veerappa Moily, K V Thomas, Shashi Tharoor, V Narayanasamy and former ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal and Subodh Kant Sahai are the prominent leaders figuring in the second list of Congress for Lok Sabh polls.

Moily will fight from Chikkballapur seat in Karnataka, Thomas from Ernakulam and Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and Narayansamy will be the party candidate in Puducherry.

On the other hand, Bansal will try his electoral fate from Chandigarh and Sahai from Ranchi.

Congress MP P C Cahko will fight from Chalakudy seat, Raj Babbar who is currently representing Firojabad seat will contest from Ghaziabad while actress turned politician Nagma will be the party candidate from Meerut Lok Sabha constituency.

Former Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi will fight from Lucknow. The list includes 10 candidates for Karnataka, 15 for Kerala, 13 for Uttar Pradesh and 7 for Maharashtra.