New Delhi, March 22 -- The Congress on Thursday named its Lok Sabha floor leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary, former lawmaker MV Rajeev Gowda and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Jayaprakash Hegde, who jumped ship earlier this month, in its third list of 56 candidates for the much-anticipated Lok Sabha elections this summer.

The party had earlier declared the names of 82 candidates as it released its two lists on March 8 and 12, respectively. With the latest announcement, the party has announced 138 candidates so far.

The third list was released on a day the Congress's Central Election Committee (CEC) held its fifth round of meeting on the remaining poll candidates, details of which are yet to be formally announced.

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