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Namdev Usendi is the party’s Gadchiroli-chimur candidate. Except Patole, all other candidates had contested the 2014 elections on a Congress ticket.

A second list of at least seven more candidates from Maharashtra is expected to be released in next few days. The Central Election Committee, headed by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, will meet again on Saturday to finalise the remaining candidates from the state.

Meanwhile, the working committee of the state Congress is meeting on Thursday morning to finalise seat-sharing deals with smaller allies. A meeting of senior Congress and Nationalist Congress Party leaders is expected to take place later, to decide the formal announcement of the Opposition coalition in the state.