Mallikarjun Kharge, Pawan Khera among seven Congress nominees for Rajya Sabha elections

Key points

• Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is among the seven Rajya Sabha candidates across five States that the party announced on Thursday (June 4, 2026) for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on June 18. Kharge is one of the three candidates from Karnataka.
• He is expected to file his nomination in Bengaluru on Friday (June 5).
• The party’s media and publicity wing head, Pawan Khera, and Mansoor Ali Khan are the two other leaders fielded from Karnataka.
• The party has fielded All India Professional Congress chief Praveen Chakravarty from Tamil Nadu.
• Mr. Chakravarty was one of the early advocates in the Congress to tie up with film superstar-turned-politician C.