The Congress fortress of Amethi was breached in the last general election in 2019 when Irani beat Rahul Gandhi by more than 55,000 votes. Sonia Gandhi defeated BJP's Singh by over 1,67,000 votes in Rae Bareli in 2019. Sonia Gandhi moved to Rajya Sabha ahead of the polls.
Congress has announced its candidates on the two key seats in Uttar Pradesh -- Amethi and Rae Bareli with Rahul Gandhi contesting on the latter and Sonia Gandhi loyalist Kishori Lal Sharma fighting on the Amethi seat against BJP's Smriti Irani.
In the past, anti-Congress parties did experiments in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency by making poll battle Gandhi vs Gandhi. There were such poll contests in 1984 and 1989 when there was a direct fight between Gandhis.
Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as Congress President, will visit Amethi on Wednesday for the first time since he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh.
It was not clear who got the posters printed and pasted across the constituency.
Union Minister Smriti Irani will visit Amethi, the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on January 4, a BJP leader said on Sunday.
Facing criticism from the Congress for asking Rahul Gandhi to postpone his visit to Amethi, the Amethi district administration today said it was ready for his three-day tour beginning Wednesday
Amethi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited villages in his parliamentary constituency Amethi and thanked people for their support in the Lok Sabha elections.Rahul went to villages where Congress got the highest number of
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