Maintaining suspense over their candidates for the Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said party president Mallikarjun Kharge would finalise the candidates for the two seats, and a decision would be in place in 24 hours.
“The Congress Election Committee empowered Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to decide the candidates for Amethi and Rae Bareli and he will take the decision soon. You will know in the next 24 hours,” Mr. Ramesh said at a press conference in Delhi.
On why there was a delay in taking a decision and if the Congress was “scared” of fielding former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi from those seats, Mr. Ramesh said, “There is no delay. Has the BJP announced its candidates in Rae Bareli? Smriti Irani is a sitting MP. Nobody is scared, discussions are ongoing. There is no delay, there is time till May 3.”
