The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the high-stakes contest for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh on May 20. Senior leader Rahul Gandhi kept up the suspense during a press conference today and was non-committal when asked about who will the party field against BJP’s Smriti Irani. When asked whether he will contest the elections from Amethi or Raebareli Rahul Gandhi said, “This is a BJP question and lauded the reporter for asking the question, but replied that the party will decide from where he will contest the elections from”.
#WATCH | Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh: When asked whether he will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi or Raebareli, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says, "This is BJP's question, very good. Whatever order I will get, I will follow it. In our party, all these (selections of… pic.twitter.com/eI0Si8Q6QB
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Rahul Gandhi has already filed his nomination paper from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from where he is a sitting MP. In the 2019 parliamentary election Raebareli was the only seat that the Congress party won and that too with a reduced margin. In 2014 Sonia Gandhi won the seat by a margin of more than 3.5 lakhs that got reduced to little over 1.6 lakhs in 2019 election.
