NEW DELHI, June 17, 2024 (TBINN)
Since her entry in active politics in 2019, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was projected as a possible challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and also as a successor to Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi in the family pocket borough of Rae Bareli.
However, Congress has decided to field her from Kerala’s Wayanad, the parliamentary seat that her elder brother Rahul Gandhi won for two consecutive terms. Rahul today decided to vacate Wayanad for her while keeping Rae Bareli, earlier represented by their mother Sonia Gandhi.
Rahul won comfortably for the first time from Wayanad in 2019 when he had to bite the dust in the family stronghold of Amethi.
In the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, the former Congress chief again contested from Wayanad and moved from Amethi to Rae Bareli. Having won both the seats, he has decided to vacate Wayanad and retain Rae Bareli.
The 52-year-old Priyanka, whose name did the rounds as Congress candidate for Amethi, Rae Bareli as well as Varanasi parliamentary seats, will finally make her debut in electoral politics from the safe environs of Wayanad in Kerala, a state that the Congress almost swept in 2019 as well as 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
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