New Delhi, June 4 -- The Congress on Thursday released its list of seven candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, scheduled to be held on June 18.

The list includes party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who has been nominated from Karnataka.

The party has also nominated Mansoor Ali Khan and Pawan Khera from Karnataka, Meenakshi Natarajan from Madhya Pradesh.

Neeraj Dangi has been nominated from Rajasthan, while Praveen Chakravarty has been fielded from Tamil Nadu and Pranav Jha from Jharkhand.

On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also released its official list of 11 candidates.

The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the party finalised the names of representatives across key states to contest the Upper House polls.

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