Taking a potshot on the Congress occasion over the much-anticipated Amethi seat, BJP’s Amit Malviya requested whether or not they had been “scared” for not having nominated chief Rahul Gandhi for the stated seat.
The assertion comes after the Congress occasion introduced the primary record of 39 candidates on Friday, skipping names for the candidates in Uttar Pradesh. The Congress’s first record talked about neither Rae Bareli nor Amethi, the seat from which Rahul Gandhi received the Lok Sabha elections however misplaced to BJP in 2019.
Taking to X, BJP’s IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya wrote, “Rahul Gandhi won’t contest from Amethi? dar gaya (are you scared)?”
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, as per the primary record, has been fielded for the Wayanad seat in Kerala for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Nonetheless, it’s not clear but if Rahul Gandhi will return to Amethi and contest from his outdated turf. Rahul Gandhi had received the seat thrice in a row since 2004 earlier than he was defeated by Smriti Irani.
In the meantime, Smriti Irani has been fielded by the BJP as its candidate from Amethi once more after she has clung to the baton in Amethi because the final Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
Not too long ago, Rahul Gandhi turned up in Amethi in the course of the Uttar Pradesh leg of his ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and talked about a “long-standing relationship”. This was solely the third time in 5 years that he landed in Amethi.
After a lot anticipation and wait, the Congress lastly brokered a seat-sharing pact with one in every of its INDIA bloc allies, the Samajwadi Get together, whereby the Congress occasion bought a share of 17 seats out of 80 constituencies in UP. Among the many seats which the Congress bought within the seat-sharing pact are Raebareli and Amethi, erstwhile bastions of the Nehru-Gandhi household.