Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Amethi in Uttar Pradesh goes to polls in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 20 (Monday). The counting of votes will be done on June 4 (Tuesday).
Amethi has been a stronghold of the Congress party for decades. The seat is also known as the Gandhi family bastion until being won by Smriti Irani in 2019 against Rahul Gandhi.
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.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress announced its candidates on the last day of filing of nominations for Amethi and Rae Bareli constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The polling at these two seats is scheduled to take place on May 20.
The speculations continue over Congress' candidates for Amethi and Rae Bareli seats for the Lok Sabha elections. Friday (May 3) is the last date for filing of nominations for the seats that will go to polls on May 20.
Smriti Irani, in an exclusive conversation with India TV, exuberated confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win all the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, to achieve NDA's target of 400-plus seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
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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.
The Amethi seat has been represented by Rahul Gandhi from 2004 and he remained the member of Parliament from the constituency for three consecutive terms till 2019. He currently represents the Wayanad constituency in Kerala from where he has contested this time also.
In this fact check, it was found that the Congress party has not officially released any press release announcing its candidates for Amethi and Raebareli Lok Sabha constituencies.
Sonia Gandhi is reportedly keen on strategically positioning her children, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. However, there seems to be a slight hitch in Sonia's plan as Rahul Gandhi is hesitant about running for elections from two separate seats.
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Voting in Uttar Pradesh is taking place in all the seven phases during the Lok Sabha elections. In the first two phases, polling on 16 seats in Uttar Pradesh has concluded.
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Meanwhile, Congress has yet to field a candidate for this constituency. Earlier, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the names of party candidates for the prestigious Amethi and Rae Bareli seats in Uttar Pradesh will be announced in a 'few days'.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: This is the ninth list of candidates released by the Mayawati-led party. With this, the party has declared its candidates for 71 seats out of total 80 parliamentary seats in the state. Voting will be held in all seven phases for a total of 80 seats in UP.
The sources said the decision on whether Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi or not will be taken in a day or two. Th development comes amid a buzz that Rahul Gandhi could be fielded from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat.
Incumbent MP and BJP leader Smriti Irani has recently challenged Rahul Gandhi to contest solo from the Uttar Pradesh's Amethi seat in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. She had earlier defeated the Congress leader from Amethi by a margin of 55,120 votes in 2019.
BJP's Smriti Irani is the incumbent MP from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi while Sonia Gandhi from Raebareli. However, the Congress patriarch has already moved to Rajya Sabha. In such a scenario, the 'Grand Old Party' will definitely put its best bet forward to maintain dominance in Raebareli.
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