Rahul contesting from Rae Bareli: Amit Shah predicts defeat; MP CM Yadav says fear of defeat from Wayanad

“Modi ji tried and at once Chandrayaan (mission to Moon) got launched. Sonia Gandhi has launched this ‘yaan’ named Rahul Baba (Rahul Gandhi) twenty times, but her launching has not been successful. Today for the twenty-first time, running away from Amethi, he has filed his nomination from Raebareli,” Shah said.

He said, “Rahul Baba, I’m telling the result of Raebareli from here. Against BJP’s candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh, you will lose by a huge margin. Write down my words.”

Rahul Gandhi has also contested the ongoing Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad in Kerala which went to polls on 26 April.

Reacting to Rahul contesting from Rae Bareli, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on too took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi, saying Rahul Gandhi has now changed the constituency and decided to contest from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli seat out of fear of defeat from Wayanad.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi had contested from Amethi as well as Wayanad seats. While he won from Wayanad, he lost the Amethi seat to Union minister Smriti Irani.

‘Irani did excellent work in Amethi’

In a press statement, Yadav said, “Rahul Gandhi ran to Kerala last time after losing from Amethi, now he is running to Rae Bareli seeing the possibility of defeat in Wayanad. He will face defeat from Rae Bareli also.”

“Rahul was thinking of contesting from Amethi out of fear of defeat from Wayanad, but Irani did excellent work during the past five years and the Congress lost deposits on four out of five assembly seats of Amethi,” he said.

Earlier this week, Yadav held a roadshow in Amethi after accompanying local BJP candidate Smriti Irani when she filed her nomination form.

Yadav said the Congress was not able to select the candidates from Amethi and Rae Bareli seats till the last minute as a result of the enthusiastic atmosphere created for a third term for the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The entire Uttar Pradesh is filled with the charisma of PM Modi. The BJP is going to break the past record, he claimed.

The MP chief minister said people will give a befitting reply to the Congress for hampering development and talking lightly about Modi.

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Rahul from Rae Bareli

Rahul Gandhi is contesting the elections from the Raebareli seat in Uttar Pradesh, the constituency held by his mother Sonia Gandhi for the last two decades.

Kishori Lal Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, has been fielded from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, the party said in a statement on Friday.

The two seats will go to polls on 20 May in the fifth of the seven-phase general election.

Ending days of suspense, the party announced the candidates from the two seats on Friday.

Raebareli is a constituency which had earlier elected Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi, his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his grandfather Feroze Gandhi.

The constituency has also been represented by family members and friends of the Gandhi-Nehru family.

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