The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Congress on Sunday unanimously passed a resolution for the candidature from the Gandhi family in Amethi and Raebareli seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Congress Pradesh Election Committee (PEC) refrained from officially naming the candidates from the family but sources confirmed the push is for Rahul Gandhi to contest from Amethi and Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra from Raebareli.
“The Pradesh Election Committee met today and discussed candidates in each of the 17 Lok Sabha seats allocated to us under INDIA alliance. Names of three to five probable candidates are sent for other seats to the CEC, while for Amethi and Raebareli seats, the PEC unanimously passed a resolution requesting the Congress president to make members of the Gandhi family candidates. No other names were discussed in the meeting for both seats,” Anil Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Congress general secretary, told The Hindu.
The grand-old-party and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have reached a seat-sharing agreement for the parliamentary polls that gives 17 seats to the Congress and 63 seats to the SP. The PEC led by the State Congress chief Ajay Rai, consists of 39 members, including all senior State Congress leaders. The State unit is continuously pushing for the candidature of both Mr. Gandhi and Ms. Vadra from the old bastions represented by the family till 2019. Raebareli was won by the family (Sonia Gandhi) even in 2019.
