Lok Sabha Elections / Will Priyanka contest from Rae Bareli seat and Rahul contest from Amethi? Decision will be taken today

Zoom News : Apr 27, 2024, 08:13 AM
Lok Sabha Elections: The Central Election Committee of Congress is going to meet today, in which there will be churning on many seats including Amethi and Rae Bareli. The meeting will be held tonight at 8 pm. After this meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee, Congress can announce its candidates from Amethi and Rae Bareli. Let us tell you that voting for two phases of Lok Sabha elections has been completed and Congress has not yet announced the names of its candidates from these two seats.

Amethi and Rae Bareli seats are important for Congress

Amethi and Rae Bareli have been traditional seats of Congress, from where only members of the Gandhi family have been contesting elections. In the last Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi from Amethi seat. Now it is being said that there is a strong demand by the party cadre to field former party president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Rae Bareli seat, in view of which a decision can be taken in the Congress meeting on Saturday.

There is a demand to field Rahul and Priyanka on these two seats.

Rahul Gandhi is already contesting from Wayanad seat of Kerala and voting has been completed on that seat in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, so in such a situation, Congress can make Rahul Gandhi a candidate from Amethi seat and Priyanka Gandhi can be made a candidate from this Lok Sabha seat. For the first time in the elections, there is talk of fielding a candidate from Rae Bareli. The State Election Committee of Uttar Pradesh unit of Congress had proposed the names of Rahul Gandhi from Amethi and Priyanka Gandhi from Rae Bareli and in the last Central Election Committee meeting also there was discussion about these two seats but Gandhi decided to contest the elections on the respective seats. Was left to the family.

Voting will be held on both seats in the fifth phase

Let us tell you that Rahul Gandhi, who represented Amethi Lok Sabha seat for 15 years, had lost to BJP's Smriti Irani last time. This time too, BJP leader Smriti Irani, who is now a Union Minister, has repeatedly challenged the Gandhi family and Rahul Gandhi to contest again from this seat. This seat became vacant after former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi went to Rajya Sabha from Rae Bareli seat, after which demand is being raised for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest elections on this seat. Let us tell you that in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held in Amethi and Rae Bareli on 20th May.

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