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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Before formally submitting his nomination, Rahul Gandhi, a Congress Member of Parliament and candidate, organised a natty-scale avenue demonstrate in Wayanad, Kerala, his electoral district.
Rahul Gandhi, Congress chief and fifth-generation scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi family, filed his nomination for upcoming total elections from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency. That is the first time since 2004 when Rahul won’t contest from a extinct Congress stronghold of Amethi in northern India, the constituency he represented for three consecutive phrases between 2004 and 2019 when he turned into defeated by Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s Smriti Irani.
#WATCH | Lok Sabha elections 2024 | Kerala: Congress occasion’s sitting MP and candidate Rahul Gandhi recordsdata his nomination from Wayanad
His sister and occasion’s total secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is furthermore most up-to-date with him.
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He kicked off his avenue to nomination with a huge roadshow in Wayanad sooner than filing his nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Accompanying him turned into his sister and the occasion’s total secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
In the 2019 Parliamentary elections, Rahul Gandhi secured victory within the Wayanad constituency by a good margin of larger than 4,00,000 votes. In accordance with the occasion, Rahul Gandhi arrived in Muppainad, a village within Wayanad, by helicopter after which proceeded by avenue to Kalpetta.
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At roughly 11 am, he conducted a roadshow ranging from Kalpetta, accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi, AICC total secretaries KC Venugopal and Deepa Das, AICC’s Nationwide Students’ Union in-cost Kanhaiya Kumar, as well as Leader of the Opposition within the state meeting VD Satheesan and performing president of KPCC MM Hassan, as acknowledged by the Congress.
Many occasion members and supporters turned out to affix the procession. The roadshow will pause near the Civil Place round midday, following which Rahul Gandhi is made up our minds to most up-to-date his nomination papers to the District Collector, in response to the occasion.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi won with 7,06,367 votes out of a crammed with 10,92,197. His closest rival, CPI’s PP Suneer, acquired easiest 2,74,597 votes. This year, vote casting in Kerala for the Lok Sabha elections will happen on April 26.
(With inputs from companies)
