The Congress on Thursday held a legislative party meeting and prepared a list of eligible candidates, who are likely to get the party's ticket to contest in the Lok Sabha elections. According to Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President Dinesh Gundu Rao, the leaders of the Congress and JD(S) will put together a consolidated list of potential candidates to be sent to the high command for approval. "A meeting will be held on March 11, where the final candidates would be selected," Dinesh Gundu Rao said.

Congress insiders say that the party's leaders are not willing to give up the seats which they had won in 2014. "If we give up the seats which we had won against the JD(S), we would essentially be handing over our voter bases to them and this is not in the interest of the party," a Congress source said.

TNM has accessed the list which was prepared and below are the details of the shortlisted candidates

Bidar: Eshwar Khandre, CM Ibrahim and Vijay Singh

Bagalkot: Bayakka Meti, Veena Kashappanavar, Ajay Kumat Sarnaik

Vijayapura: Raju Alagooru, Prakash Rathod

Belagavi: Anjali Nimbalkar, Channaraj Hebbalkar, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Vivekrao Patil

Dharwad: Vinay Kulkarni (INC), Shekar Sanadi (INC, son of IG Sanadi), Veeranna Mattikatti

Haveri: Basavaraj Shivannavar, Saleem Ahmed, DR Patil

Davangere: SS Mallikarjun, HM Revanna

Uttara Kannada: Prashant Deshpande, Nivedit Alva (Margaret Alva's son), Bheemanna Naik

Udupi-Chikkamagaluru: Arati Krishna, Vijaykumar, Pramod Madhwaraj, BK Hariprakash

Mangaluru: Ramanath Rai, Ivan D'Souza, Moinuddin Bava, Vinay Kumar Sorake

Bengaluru Central: Rizwan Arshad, BK Hariprakash, Roshan Baig, HT Sangliana, Saleem Ahmed

Bengaluru South: Priya Krishna, Ramalinga Reddy

Bengaluru North: C Narayanaswamy, MR Seetaram, BL Shankar

Mysuru: CH Vijayshankar, Suraj Hegde