Kalmadi was suspended from Congress some time back in connection with irregularities in the Commonwealth Games, of which he was the organising secretary.
With sitting member Rao Inderjit Singh leaving the party to contest as BJP candidate from Gurgaon and AAP fielding its ideologue Yogendra Yadav, Congress has brought in a Yadav candidate Rao Dharampal.
Ajay Singh, son of veteran Arjun Singh, was made the Congress nominee from Satna, a seat once represented by his late father.
Union Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch has been renominated from Jodhpur and Ninong Ering from Arunachal West and Dinsha Patel from Kheda in Gujarat and Srikant jena fron Balasore.
The party has not named its candidate for Nanded, where former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan is an aspirant.
