Thiruvananthapuram, March 17 -- Congress on Tuesday announced its list of 55 candidates for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections.

The party has fielded Kerala Congress Committee President Sunny Joseph from the Peravoor seat. Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan has been fielded from the Paravur seat.

K Muraleedharan, former MP and son of veteran Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Kerala and former Union Minister of Industry K. Karunakaran from the Vattiyoorkavu seat.

Earlier, the party's Central Election Committee convened to finalise the candidate list for the Kerala polls. Speaking on the occasion, Congress MP KC Venugopal emphasised that "the party's Central Election Committee has cleared many names today for the major chun...