Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party leader found dead in Amethi
India | July 12, 2019 14:15 ISTA leader of the Shivpal Singh Yadav-led Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) was found dead near the Amethi railway station on Friday, police said.
A leader of the Shivpal Singh Yadav-led Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) was found dead near the Amethi railway station on Friday, police said.
Rahul will visit Amethi today for the first time since he was defeated in his traditional Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and will hold a closed-door meeting with party workers.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Amethi on July 10. This will be his first visit to Amethi after losing in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
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Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani on Saturday said people of the constituency elected her as their 'Didi' (elder sister) and not an MP, while underlining her resolve to do the best for the region.
Identified as 45-year-old Ashok Kumar, the victim is the head of Chibraha village and was attacked late Wednesday, while he was on his way back from a brick kiln in Peeparpur.
She said that Amethi would now be her permanent home and she would be accessible to the people.
Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had adopted Barolia in 2015 as a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will pay a two-day visit to Wayanad in Kerala, his Parliamentary constituency, today. he will visit to thank the voters of Wayanad who made him win the 2019 Lok Sabha election from the seat.
In his first interview after the election results, Raj Babbar said Gandhi considered Amethi not just as his parliamentary constituency, but his family.
UP Congress Committee member Rajiv Singh said, "The review will take place even at village level. The members of the review team will hold meetings with heads of blocks and panchayat."
However, the Congress President lost from his family pocket borough of Amethi to his rival BJP's Smriti Irani by a margin of 55,000 votes.
Wasim, Nasim, Golu and Ramchandra have been booked for the murder while the fifth person, identified as Dharamnath Gupta, has been charged with conspiracy to kill the BJP leader.
Irani has defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi and when the latter conceded defeat, he asked Irani "to take care of Amethi with love".
BJP leader Smriti Irani reached Amethi on Sunday afternoon to meet the family of Surendra Singh, a former village head who was shot dead early on Sunday.
Smriti Irani rushed to Amethi after she learnt about the murder of Surendra Singh, who has campaigned for BJP for Lok Sabha Election 2019.
Baraulia village was in news during campaigning in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, as Priyanka Gandhi had accused Smriti Irani of distributing shoes to the residents in order to insult Rahul Gandhi.
Though he was defeated on home turf Amethi to BJP's Smriti Irani, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will again contest from the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a party leader said.
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Earlier in the day, Uttar Pradesh Congress President Raj Babbar also offered to resign, claiming moral responsibility for the poor performance of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh where the party won just one of the 80 seats.
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