Prayagraj: Prominent Congressmen of the district and city have sent a proposal to the party high command to make senior Congress leader and State Working Committee member Fuzail Hashmi the candidate for the Phulpur Assembly by-election. In this regard, a meeting of party members was held in Civil Lines under the chairmanship of PCC member Harikesh Tripathi. It was said in the meeting that Hashmi is a popular face of the party with an honest and clean image and has long experience in the organization. Being a Muslim dominated area, voters want qualified and dedicated representatives. Therefore, seeing Hashmi’s struggles, he should be declared the candidate of India Alliance. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi Advocate, Rajeshwar Yadav, Kishore Varshney, Omprakash Tripathi, Rajesh Rakesh, Arshad Ali, Kaif Warsi, Ram Manorath Saroj, Parvez Siddiqui, Santosh Singh, Khushnaveda Farooqui, Mohd. Javed, RS Bhartiya, Sartaj Mohammad, Neeraj Patel etc. are included.