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Suspense over Congress candidates for Amethi and Raebareli seats of Uttar Pradesh continues even as the last-ditch attempts are underway to convince Rahul Gandhi and , or at least one of the two siblings, to enter the fray.
The unusually long time the Congress is taking to name its candidates for the traditional Nehru-Gandhi family seats of Amethi and Raebareli is baffling party leaders and workers alike. Adding to the intrigue, sources claimed that both Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra appear reluctant to contest, and last-minute efforts are said to be on to convince the two – or at least one of them – to enter the fray.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Congress party's delay in announcing a candidate for the Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh is testing the patience of the local party unit. On Tuesday, the unit held a sit-in protest demanding a Gandhi family member as its candidate for the seat. Amethi will go for voting in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 on May 20.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar quit the BJP and joined the Congress in April 2023, just months before the elections, sending shockwaves across the party he had been associated with for decades. Though he lost the elections from his home turf Hubli-Dharwad, he was made an MLC. He returned to the BJP in January and is now its candidate from the Belgaum Lok Sabha seat that was earlier represented by his close relative and former Union Minister Suresh Angadi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi by calling him a "shehzada [prince]" on Saturday. The Prime Minister told people at a public meeting in Nanded, Maharashtra, that Gandhi would leave Wayanad the way he "fled" the Amethi constituency.
One day after releasing its manifesto, “Nyay Patra”, for the Lok Sabha elections at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi, the Congress leadership is set to hold rallies in Rajasthan and Telangana on Saturday to ‘publicly launch’ the manifesto.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that the coalition of Opposition parties, INDIA bloc, will decide its prime minister candidate after winning the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. After the Congress released its poll manifesto on Friday, Gandhi was asked who could be the PM face of the Congress — Rahul Gandhi himself or Mallikarjun Kharge.
In his first remarks as he joined the Shinde Shiv Sena after being expelled from the Congress for “indiscipline” and “anti-party statements”, former Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam hit out at the party, calling it “organisationally disturbed”.