New Delhi, April 15 -- The Congress on Sunday named its Lok Sabha candidates for the three Delhi seats it is contesting as part of the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party, pitching Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi, JP Agarwal from Chandni Chowk and Udit Raj from North West Delhi.

Kumar, who joined the Congress in September 2021 from the Communist Party of India (CPI), contested the last Lok Sabha elections from Bihar's Begusarai, where he lost to Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Giriraj Singh. This time, the party fielded Kumar from NE Delhi after it failed to get Begusarai from its INDIA allies.

Kumar is in charge of the party's students wing NSUI, and is pitted against the BJP's sitting MP Manoj Tiwari in a constituency with a substan...