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All Congress cadres might perchance well perchance be eagerly awaiting the meeting to place because the committee will prefer whether former party president Rahul Gandhi will be fielded from Amethi.
The Central Election Committee of India’s essential opposition Congress party is all location to finalise candidates on two of its strongholds in the boom of Uttar Pradesh: Amethi and Raebareli. A meeting will be held Saturday (Apr 27) and the decision might perchance well perchance be taken tomorrow. All Congress cadres might perchance well perchance be eagerly awaiting the meeting to place because the committee will prefer whether former party president Rahul Gandhi will be fielded from Amethi. There are also speculations that Rahul’s sister and Congress Traditional Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra might perchance well perchance be fielded from the Raebareli seat.
It’s to be licensed that Gandhi is already contesting elections in the Wayanad constituency in the southern Indian boom of Kerala. If Priyanka’s name is finalised from Raebareli, it’d be her political debut.
Earlier, the boom election committee of Congress’s Uttar Pradesh unit had proposed the names of Rahul Gandhi from Amethi and Priyanka Gandhi from Raebareli.
It used to be reported that the decision might perchance well perchance be taken in the closing meeting of the CEC itself but later the decision used to be left to the Gandhi household.
Both seats bastions of Congress
Severely, each Amethi and Raebareli are Congress’s bastions. Rahul Gandhi represented Amethi as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 15 years till 2019 but misplaced to BJP’s Smriti Irani closing time.
On the opposite hand, former Congress chief and Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi represented Raebareli for diverse terms but now the seat stands vacated as Sonia has been nominated to the upper house of the Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
Robert Vadra gives prayers in Rishikesh
Meanwhile, Sonia’s son-in-law and Priyanka’s husband Robert Vadra on Friday supplied prayers in Rishikesh and prayed for the protection of Rahul and Priyanka.
“The controversy over with here has given me energy and I prayed for the protection of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi whereas campaigning. I prayed for an environment of peace in the country and that the feeling of brotherhood remains. Take care of religion and politics entirely separate,” Vadra said.
(With inputs from agencies)
Vikrant Singh
Geopolitical author at WION, follows Indian foreign coverage and world politics, a truth seeker.
