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Amethi, Rahul Gandhi’s Raebareli Charge In Focus In 5th Phase Of Lok Sabha Election

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Congress MP Rahul gandhi is contesting from UP’s Raebareli and Wayand in Kerala (File). New Delhi: Polling for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election began today with voting taking place in 49 seats across six states and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. States where voting will take place are Uttar Pradesh (14), Maharashtra (13), Bengal (7), Odisha and Bihar (5), and Jharkhand (3), as also one seat each in J&K and Ladakh. In addition, 35 Assembly seats in Odisha will also vote. This will be the smallest of the seven phases in this election but will still feature some big names, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who will contest from the family stronghold of Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh – won in the past five elections by his mother Sonia Gandhi. This will be his second contest this election; he fought from Kerala’s Wayanad, which voted April 26. He won the seat last year, allowing him to remain a MP after a shock defeat to the BJP’s Smriti Irani in …

Opposition will register victories with record margins in Rae Bareli, Amethi: Akhilesh Yadav

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Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav campaign for Rahul Gandhi in Rae Bareli on May 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday in Sultanpur said that Rae Bareli and Amethi would be among the Lok Sabha seats where the INDIA bloc candidates register victories with record margins. The SP-Congress alliance was a formidable coalition, he added. “Amethi and Rae Bareli will also be included among the seats where we (the SP and the Congress) will register victories with record margin in the country. With the Samajwadi Party and the Congress coming together, one and one have become eleven and this time, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will become naw do egyahar (run away) and reduced to zero,” Mr. Yadav told reporters. In Rae Bareli, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was contesting on the symbol of the grand old party, while Kishori Lal Sharma, an old trusted aide of the Gandhi family, was the Congress candidate for …