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Amethi election results: Smriti Irani trails in Amethi as Kishori Lal Sharma extends lead by over 1.5 lakh votes

In a big upset for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani, dubbed a giant slayer after she defeated Rahul Gandhi from the seat in the 2019 elections, lost to Congress’s Kishori Lal Sharma in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In the run-up to the 2024 polls, Priyanka Gandhi camped …

BJP's Smriti Irani has carved her identity by opposing Rahul Gandhi but cannot do so in Amethi this time and will face defeat, Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel has said, exuding confidence that his party will win both the Amethi and Rae Bareli seats in Uttar Pradesh by "big margin" in the Lok Sabha polls. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who …

Hours before the deadline for filing nominations, the Congress announced on Friday morning that it would field its former president Rahul Gandhi from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli constituency, and Gandhi family loyalist K.L. Countering the criticism this move has generated, Mr. Gandhi claimed that the Amethi and Rae Bareli seats are not “different” and voters in both the constituencies are …

Rahul Gandhi to contest from Rae Bareli, Kishori Lal Sharma to contest from Amethi

Maintaining suspense over their candidates for the Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said party president Mallikarjun Kharge would finalise the candidates for the two seats, and a decision would be in place in 24 hours. “The Congress Election Committee empowered Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to decide the candidates …

Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on Saturday said the State unit has unanimously demanded that members of the Gandhi family contest the Lok Sabha election from Amethi and Rae Bareli. Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Rai said, “We had earlier unanimously passed a resolution for the candidature from the Gandhi family in Amethi and Rae Bareli seats in the …

Businessman-husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who had earlier expressed his desire to contest from the Amethi parliamentary seat, has said that the entire country wishes for him to get into active politics. Smriti Irani, the sitting MP from hasn't fulfilled her promises," Mr. Vadra said on Friday when asked whether he would contest from Amethi Lok Sabha seat. …

Congress workers of Amethi and Raebareli are pleading the party leadership with “folded hands” that senior leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra must be asked to contest from the two seats, said the party’s general secretary and Uttar Pradesh in-charge Avinash Pandey. Mr. Pandey said the leadership already had serious discussions on the proposal and the next meeting of …

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra has expressed his desire to contest the general election from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, saying that people of the constituency want someone from the Gandhi family to represent them in the Lok Sabha this time. Talking to mediapersons, Mr. Vadra said people of Amethi were not happy with their current MP, Union …

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge joined the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on February 19 as it reached Rahul Gandhi’s former Lok Sabha constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and recalled the close association of the Gandhi family with the people of Amethi and Rae Bareli. While Mr. Gandhi lost to BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Z. Irani in the 2019 …

After last week’s disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member, following his conviction and sentencing by a Surat court, the spotlight is back on the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, which was represented by the Congress leader till 2019. It was believed that Mr. Gandhi would contest from Amethi or from the other traditional family seat …

Officials of the Kshatriya community to which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also belongs, are carrying out “injustice” in Uttar Pradesh, alleged Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday. Mr. Yadav levelled the allegation after visiting the relatives of a woman sub-inspector Rashmi Yadav who was found hanging at her official quarters in Amethi on Friday. Citing information from local sources, …