Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Congress likely to field Priyanka Gandhi from Raebareli, Rahul Gandhi from Amethi and Wayanad
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest from Raebareli in 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, succeeding Sonia Gandhi. Posters supporting her candidacy have already appeared in the city. Rahul Gandhi set to contest from Amethi and Wayanad.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to contest from the Raebareli constituency for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi used to contest the Raebareli seat previously. After Sonia Gandhi made the move to Rajya Sabha, speculations were rife that Priyanka Gandhi would be taking up the Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, marking her poll debut.
According to sources, posters of Priyanka Gandhi have already come up in Rae Bareli.
2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Priyanka Gandhi's Poll Debut
With Raebareli, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will likely make her debut in electoral politics. The Raebareli seat was won by Sonia Gandhi five times in the past, including 2019, when she was the sole Congress leader to win a UP Lok Sabha seat.
Posters seeking Priyanka Gandhi's candidature from Raebareli was put up by Congress workers in the Uttar Pradesh city. "Take Congress' development work forward, Raebareli is calling... Priyanka Gandhiji, please come," the posters said.
2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Rahul Gandhi's constituencies
Rahul Gandhi is also likely to contest from both Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad in Kerala. Rahul Gandhi had lost Amethi to Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smriti Irani in the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls.
Rahul Gandhi will also fight from his current seat of Wayanad in Kerala; victory here had allowed him to retain his Lok Sabha status after the last general election.
2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Congress Manifesto
Seeking to woo the country's youth ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress will for the first time ever offer them the "right to employment" as part of its poll promise for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections besides mulling stringent punishment to those responsible for paper leaks in examinations.
The party top leadership is likely to make an announcement on the 'right to employment' during a public rally at Badanawar in Madhya Pradesh, where both Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi will be present.
The party's manifesto committee, which is headed by former finance minister P. Chidambaram and has senior leaders like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Shashi Tharoor and Anand Sharma, among others, is likely to wind up discussions on the manifesto on Tuesday.
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First Published:6 Mar 2024, 04:25 PM IST
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