Chennai, March 23 (IANS) The Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI) Wednesday released their lists of candidates for the coming assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

The Congress party will be contesting in 63 constituencies it got after hard bargaining with the DMK, the front leader and ruling party.

Majority of the sitting Congress legislators have been retained while the notable omission is that of actor turned politician S.Ve.Shekhar.

Shekhar had won from Chennai's Mylapore constituency under the AIADMK ticket in the 2006 elections. He was expelled from the party in 2009.

Shekhar was the first person to submit his application for a Congress seat this time.

The Mylapore seat has been allotted to Jayanthi Thangkabalu, wife of Tamil Nadu Congress chief K.V. Thangkabalu. She is one of the party's six women candidates in the elections.

The DMK is contesting in 119 of the 234 constituencies going to polls April 13.

Apart from the Congress, the other parties in the alliance are the PMK (30 seats), KMK (7), MMK (1), VCK (10), IUML (3) and a Nadar party (1).

From the opposition AIADMK camp, the CPI Wednesday announced its list of 10 candidates.

The AIADMK is contesting 160 seats.

The other parties in the AIADMK-led alliance include the DMDK (41 seats), CPI-M (12), CPI (10), MNMK (3), PT (2), SMK (2), RPI (1), FB (1), KYF (1) and AIMMK (1).