LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest Lok Sabha elections from Amethi and Rae Bareli seats, respectively, stated Congress functionaries, including that the choice was taken at a gathering that they had with the get together management in Delhi this week.It implies Priyanka’s electoral debut from the seat represented by her mom Sonia Gandhi, who has now moved to RS, and Rahul probably contesting from Amethi, together with Wayanad in Kerala.Requested concerning the rising buzz, Pradeep Singhal, Amethi district Congress chief, stated, “Yes, it’s correct, both will contest from Amethi and Rae Bareli. We had gone to Delhi for a meeting chaired by the party’s top leadership. The party has asked us to start preparing for the election, which we have.”The declare ties in with the indications that there’s rising strain on Gandhi household to contest from the pocket borough the place the get together maintain has grown weaker post-2014, evidenced in Rahul’s defeat by the hands of Union minister Smriti Irani within the 2019 polls.Prime get together sources, nevertheless, stated no resolution has been conveyed by the Gandhi household but on Amethi and Rae Bareli, however calls for have solely been rising in current months. Scores of staff from Amethi-Rae Bareli are presently tenting within the capital, and their go to to AICC headquarters on Wednesday triggered a media frenzy. Their claims about Rahul-Amethi, Priyanka-Rae Bareli went viral.Though leaders acknowledge that 2024 contest can be robust for the opposition within the northern area, managers additionally exude confidence that the dual seats would react positively to the Gandhi household. “Voters here have a personal connect with the family. The 2019 Amethi defeat was an aberration, more because of our mismanagement” a key loyalist stated.In the meantime, the get together brass can also be learnt to have sought the views of veterans who’ve expertise of the bottom in UP, and have acquired optimistic suggestions. Final month, the response to Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra within the two seats was sufficient to nudge AICC office-bearers like Jairam Ramesh to say that Rahul would contest from Amethi.
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