Rahul Gandhi Likely To Contest From Amethi And Priyanka Gandhi To Fight Lok Sabha Polls | News18

Amid the ongoing suspense over the Amethi and Raibareli seat, Congresses CC meet was held at the AICC headquarters yesterday. Several Congress leaders after the CC meet said that the final announcement on the Amethi and Raibareli seat will be done in the next one to two days. Now top Congress sources have revealed to see a News 18 that Rahul Gandhi is likely to contest from Amethi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Raibareli. One proposal in the meet was also to field Priyanka Gandhi Vadra against Smriti Irani to make it a women versus women fight. The last day for filing nomination remember is third May and BJP Smriti Irani will file her nomination from a meetee on 29th of April is what we are learning from our sources now. As for Rai Bareli, BJP pick is also something that remains unclear at the moment. Sir, any name when can we expect Sir, when can we? Within one or two days. Tomorrow we can one or two days. Everything will be AAP sabke madhyamse chunga main khule dil SE swagat karunga Rahul Gandhi Ji. Mere shetra Mai Uttar Mumbai Mumbai banaras just constituency khule dil SE khule AAM Swajate or mujhe Lakhya rune Charpa constituency, said Ladnachi khushaid tuke meka daja to hare or meri Behance smriti Rani Ji unko meti say itri Puri har dilai is 1 ke pero Parliament. So that was Union Minister Piyush Goyal exuding confidence in Smriti Iranis victory from Amethi and saying that Congress will not be able to win against her. Although the suspense over Rai Bareli still remains for the BJP as well because they have not announced their candidate for Rai Bareli. At the same time, we have seen a News 18 senior editor Pallavi Go joining us live on the broadcast. Pallavi, a very good morning to you. Earlier we were talking about how this battle could be women versus women when it comes to Amethi seat because there was this obtained proposal which was made for naming Priyanka Gandhi Vadra against Smriti Irani. What are the possibilities of that? Well just about anything is possible because there’s no clarity yet from the Congress party or who really is going to be contesting and whether its going to be the Gandhi family at all. But yesterday the election committee meeting which took place which lasted around 45 minutes, this proposal was again put on the table though mums. The word was after that that the Gandhi siblings must contest vote from Amethi and library very quickly. Sakshi, what are the odds in favor of a Priyanka Gandhi Vadra? First of all, she does not have a baggage of a loss which Rahul Gandhi has from Amethi. Second, of course the woman card will be played. Two women pitted opposite to each other. Also, Priyanka Vadra is known to be of excellent communicator oratory skills and many in the Congress feel that she would be the best one to take on with the Iranian. That’s one point. But also the fact is that if case Rahul Gandhi does not contest from Amethi then once again that tag will be attached to him. That he ran away from a battle in Amethi and he’s let the tough fight going for his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadran. Shes been made the scapegoat. I think we will be getting a clarity by Monday or Tuesday at the most. Third is the day of the final day of nomination tomorrow Smriti Irani is filing a nomination from Amethi definitely. But Pallavi would like some clarity on the word coming in from Congress because initially about the delaying the announcement, they said that you know they did not want to hurt the sentiment of the people of Wayana. That is why they were delaying the announcement for Amethi and Raebareli. Why exactly the delayment happening at the moment? Because BJP is clearly taking advantage of the things and the announcements being delayed. Yes, action, that is the question which also is getting asked. I mean even if they take a call on Rahul Gandhi or the the Gandhi siblings contesting from the star constituencies, hasn’t the damage already been done? Well yes the damage has been done and the BJP, the Prime Minister himself has made this a huge point. I remember in 2019 one of the reasons believed to be for the loss of Rahul Gandhi was the fact that he also contested from Wayanad and I remember even the polling day he had not turned up in a meet him. This is something with Smriti Irani who was consistently there on the ground and she made the point. Look he ran away from a place which he has called his home. This time around the Congress didn’t want to take the chance because again the same narrative was pushed by the BJP for Wayanad and therefore they waited for the polls to be over And its now that we will get some clarity. But I tense that the damage has been done because the BJP will not give up on this issue.