Chandigarh, April 23 -- The Congress leadership on Monday dismissed as "fake" a list of nine names of purported party candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections in Haryana. Talking to reporters in Chandigarh, Haryana Congress President Udai Bhan said that a fake list of party candidates for nine Lok Sabha seats from the State has been circulating on social media and termed it as a mischievous attempt to tarnish the party's image.

On the Social Media Groups, the purported first list of candidates emerged under the guise of an AICC press release with the lines, "The Central Election Committee (CEC) of party has selected the following persons as Congress candidates for the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. The "fake list" suggested that Varun M...