Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The two hot seats of Uttar Pradesh, Amethi and Rae Bareli, are in the headlines. The nomination process has started on both the VIP seats, yet the stance regarding the candidates is not clear yet. Current BJP MP from Amethi, Smriti Irani will file nomination today. Before the nomination, Smriti Irani will do a road show with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. Irani had seen Ramlala a day earlier. However, it has not been decided yet as to who the Congress will field as its candidate from Amethi. While Congress has not decided its candidates from Amethi, BJP along with Congress has not yet announced the name of its candidate in Rae Bareli.
Who will contest the elections from where?
Voting is on May 20 in the fifth phase in Amethi and Rae Bareli. It was believed that after the voting on May 26 in Wayanad, Kerala, Rahul Gandhi would file nomination from Amethi seat, there was speculation that Priyanka Gandhi would contest from Rae Bareli. Now information has come out quoting sources that Priyanka Gandhi can file nomination on 1st or 2nd May. At the same time, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi can also file nomination on May 3. The picture is still not clear on who will file nomination for which seat in Amethi and Rae Bareli. Congress leaders are talking about Priyanka contesting from Rae Bareli and Rahul Gandhi contesting from Amethi. Also, some Congress leaders are expecting reshuffle in the candidates on both the seats.
BJP candidate from Rae Bareli?
There is talk that some members in the CEC meeting have also advised Rahul to contest from Rae Bareli and Priyanka from Amethi. At the same time, BJP had offered angry Varun Gandhi to contest elections from Rae Bareli, the traditional seat of Gandhi-Nehru family, to which Varun Gandhi refused. Varun Gandhi does not want to contest elections against Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi. Varun’s bonding with Priyanka Gandhi is considered good. In such a situation, it is believed that to maintain unity in the family, Varun Gandhi considered it appropriate to step back. In such a situation, it will be interesting that who will be the candidate of Congress in these two VIP seats and who will be the candidate of BJP in Rae Bareli?
History of Congress victory
Rahul Gandhi has won the Amethi seat three consecutive times since 2004, but in 2019, Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi. At the same time, Congress has always dominated the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. This VIP district seat has been won by the Congress party 17 times, out of which the Congress (I) has won twice. Sonia Gandhi had won from Rae Bareli in the 2019 elections, but this time Sonia Gandhi has reached Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Sonia Gandhi has won elections from Rae Bareli five times in a row.
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