Lok Sabha elections 2024: Smriti Irani can say whatever....: Jairam Ramesh's response on Congress candidate from Amethi
- I believe the announcement of candidates from the states that were discussed during yesterday's meeting, will be done today or tomorrow, Congress's Jairam Ramesh informed about candidate list
With much speculation around Congress's first candidates list for the Lok Sabha polls 2024, senior leader and MP Jairam Ramesh cited that the candidates will decided only after thorough discussion. He also said that the grand old party follows a set procedure for this.
While speaking to news agency ANI, Ramesh said, "No matter what Smriti Irani says, we have a procedure. There will be a meeting, discussions will be done and then the list of candidates will come out."
“I believe the announcement of candidates from the states that were discussed during yesterday's meeting, will be done today or tomorrow...CEC will decide from where Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest elections from...”
This is in context to Irani's comment that the prolonged delay in the announcement of the Congress party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is an indicator of the party facing defeat in the upcoming elections.
Irani, who defeated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 elections from the Amethi seat, said, "Why are people who say that Amethi is the Gandhi family's bastion taking so much time to announce a candidate? Their lack of confidence tells that Amethi is no longer the Congress' stronghold," she said.
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday met at the party headquarters for a Central Election Committee meeting to discuss candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
After the meeting, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said "We had the first central election committee regarding the parliament candidates. We finalised seats from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Lakshadweep. The procedure is going on; formal announcement will be made very soon."
The party's second Election Committee meeting will be held on March 11 in Delhi
The Lok Sabha polls are likely to be held in April-May this year.
(With agency inputs)
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