The names in the third list were finalised in a two-day meeting of the party's Central Election Committee in Delhi on 19 March.
CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar chaired meeting with the party candidates and leaders on the Lok Sabha polls at the party office in Bengaluru on Thursday. (Representational pic/X)
The children of five Karnataka state ministers are included in the Congress’s third list of 17 Lok Sabha candidates. Minister for Public Works Satish Jarkiholi’s daughter Priyanka Jarkiholi (Chikkodi), Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter and former MLA Sowmya Reddy (Bangalore South), Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre’s son Sagar Khandre (Bidar), Textiles Minister Shivananda Patil’s daughter Samyuktha S Patel (Bagalkot) has been nominated.