Key Contestant: Ashok Chavan

Senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan had resign from the Maharashtra chief minister's post in 2010 after his name cropped up in Adarsh Housing Society scam. He has been nominated from Nanded, where he challenges the sitting MP, DB Patil of the BJP.

Constituency: Nanded, Maharashtra
Party: Congress
Age: 55
Education: Post Graduate
Assets: Rs 388,758,910