Congress has not yet officially announced its candidate in any constituency. It is expected that the first phase of the Congress candidate announcement will be made tomorrow. The party's central election committee is meeting in Delhi tomorrow. There may be announcement of candidates including in Kerala. In the committee chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, Ambika Soni and Adhir Rajnan Chaudhary are in the central election committee. Although no official announcement has been made, there is a rough understanding that sitting MPs will contest except in Wayanad and Kannur constituencies in Kerala. The names of the sitting MPs of all the 13 constituencies have been proposed before the central leadership. There is no such name as Randam in any constituency.
At the same time, the sitting MPs started their unofficial campaign after getting confirmation of their candidature. MK Raghavan, K Muralidharan, Ramya Haridas, Shashi Tharoor, Anto Antony, VK Sreekanthan and others are busy with meetings. Posters have been put down and the ranks have started campaigning in cyber space as well. Actor and Congress candidate for the 2021 assembly election, Dharmajan Bolgatti, who came to the scene by campaigning for Hibi Eden in Ernakulam. Sharing a picture with Hiby Eden, Dharmajan wrote 'Jayapikan my muthi'. Although it is not certain that K Sudhakaran will contest in Kannur, campaigning for him has already started.
