Lok Sabha polls 2024: Congress forms 'Special 24' team in Raebareli as Priyanka Gandhi may contest | Know plan
India TV NewsLok Sabha Elections 2024: As speculations are rife that Congress may field party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat, the party's Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has constituted a 'Special 24' team in the district for the election management. Along with Sonia Gandhi, the committee includes her representative K L Sharma, Congress district president Pankaj Tiwari, Congress city president Dheeraj Srivastava, Raebareli assembly constituency candidate Sushil Pasi, former MLA from Harjandpur Surendra Vikram Singh, former contestant from Sadar seat Dr Manish Singh Chauhan, assembly candidate from Serene Sudha Dwivedi, candidate from Unchahar Atul Singh, assembly candidate from Bachhrawan Sahabsharan Paswan, Raebareli Nagar Palika Chairman Shatrohan Sonkar, Lal Ganj Nagar Panchayat Chairman Sarita Gupta, former Nagar Palika Chairman from Raebareli M Elias, former AIIC member Kalyan Singh Gandhi, and senior Congress leader from DDC VK Shukla. Sonia Gandhi has never lost from Raebareli since 2004 and was the lone winner for her party in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Similarty, in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Sonia Gandhi from Congress won the seat and was polled 526,434 votes with a vote share of 63.80 per cent.