Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a gripping political thriller on the day of the Lok Sabha election results in 2024. Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, the 'UP ke ladke', posed a formidable challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the INDIA bloc cutting into BJP's seat share. However, the true victor of Uttar Pradesh in this election is a leader whose efforts have finally borne fruit.
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The Congress clinched victory in Amethi and Rae Bareli. Rahul Gandhi, who contested from Rae Bareli this time along with Wayanad after Sonia Gandhi moved to Rajya Sabha, won by a huge margin and broke his mother's record.
Amethi, which the Congress lost in 2019 after BJP's Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi, in a surprise result, is also now back with the party. Congress's Amethi candidate Kishori Lal Sharma won the Gandhi family bastion defeating BJP's 'giant-slayer'.