The Congress party announces a list of seven nominees for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge is renominated to contest from Karnataka. The party also fields Pawan Khera, its media and publicity wing head, from Karnataka, alongside Mansoor Ali Khan. Other candidates named include Pranav Jha from Jharkhand, Praveen Chakravarty from Tamil Nadu, Meenakshi Natarajan from Madhya Pradesh, and Neeraj Dangi from Rajasthan. The announcements are reported by multiple outlets, which agree on the total number of candidates and the inclusion of Kharge and Khera. The reports describe Kharge’s candidacy as a renominating move and outline the state-wise distribution of the remaining nominees. The information reflects Congress’s official candidate list for the Rajya Sabha polls, as published through party channels and reported by the outlets.