Raipur. Congress has announced candidates for the remaining 4 seats in Chhattisgarh. Devender Singh Yadav from Bilaspur Lok Sabha, Shashi Singh from Surguja, Maneka Devi Singh from Raigarh and Biresh Thakur from Kanker have been given tickets. Before this, Congress has announced 7 candidates. Let us tell you that Biresh Thakur was behind Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mohan Mandvi by about 5000 votes in the last Lok Sabha elections. He is currently the State Vice President of the State Congress Committee. He started his politics from the post of district member. He was a district member from Korer of Bhanupratappur District Panchayat thrice. In 2015, he was elected District Panchayat member from Kachchha. Was a member of the State Congress Committee from 2010 to 2022. Biresh Thakur had lost the election from Kanker Lok Sabha in 2019 by 6914 votes. Earlier, Congress had released the list of its candidates for 6 Lok Sabha seats in the state. In this, former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha, Vikas Upadhyay from Raipur Lok Sabha, Tamradhwaj Sahu from Mahasamund Lok Sabha, Rajendra Sahu from Durg Lok Sabha, Jyotsna Mahant from Korba Lok Sabha and Dr. Shiv Dahria from Janjgir-Champa have been fielded. Kawasi Lakhma, MLA from Bastar Lok Sabha, has been fielded.