Lok Sabha elections 2024: Did Rahul Gandhi send goons to Smriti Irani's Amethi rally? Here's what the BJP candidate said
TimesNow has reported. Irani defeated former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress has not yet declared its candidate from Amethi.
Voting in Amethi will be held in the fifth phase on May 20. So far, the Congress party has not announced a candidate for the Amethi constituency. However, there have been speculations that Robert Vadra might contest from there.
Earlier, Vadra hinted that he might contest against Smriti Irani, stating that the people of Amethi want him to contest from there. Taking a swipe on this, Irani had said, “There was a time when people travelling in buses would leave their handkerchief to mark their seat so that no one sits on it. Rahul Gandhi will also come to mark his seat with a handkerchief because his brother-in-law is eyeing this seat," as quoted by NDTV.
Apart from Amethi, the Congress is also left to announce a candidate for Rae Bareli seat which fell vacant after its MP Sonia Gandhi decided to opt out of contesting Lok Sabha polls. The former Congress president took oath as a Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan on April 4. Milestone Alert!
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