‘Rahul Gandhi should have contested from Varanasi against PM Modi’: Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod

“We all know how Rahul Gandhi migrated from Amethi. Another chief in his place, who takes selections after rigorously weighing his credibility and acceptability, would have thought-about contesting instantly towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi if he didn’t want from Amethi,” Acharya Krishnam advised information company ANI in an interview.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, as a Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) candidate. That is the third time PM Modi is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi. He secured main victories throughout the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the seat and even surpassed the victory margins of his predecessor and BJP stalwart Murali Manohar Joshi.

‘Priyanka Gandhi a sufferer of…’

Acharya Pramod additionally known as Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi a “sufferer” of “conspiracy within the household and get together”. He stated, “I stated this earlier that Rahul Gandhi is not going to contest Amethi. I stated this, too, that Rahul Gandhi is not going to let Priyanka Gandhi Vadra battle these elections.”

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“There’s a massive conspiracy afoot towards Priyanka. She is the sufferer of a conspiracy hatched by her household and the get together,” Acharya Krishnam stated on Friday.

Krishnam’s assertion got here hours after the Congress declared Rahul Gandhi its candidate from Congress stronghold Raebareli, as an alternative of Amethi, for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Acharya Pramod Krishnam was expelled by the Congress for “indiscipline” in February 2024.

The Raebareli seat was vacated lately by Rahul’s mom Sonia Gandhi, who took membership of the Rajya Sabha from Jaipur.

Rahul Gandhi will now battle the Lok Sabha Elections from Raebareli towards Uttar Pradesh minister and BJP chief Dinesh Pratap Singh. He’s additionally searching for a contemporary time period within the Decrease Home from the Wayanad seat that polled in Section 2 of the final elections on April 26.

In Amethi, the Congress bastion that fell to the BJP 5 years in the past, in 2019; the Congress will likely be represented by Kishori Lal Sharma, a longtime loyalist of the Gandhi household.

The voting in each seats will likely be held within the fifth section of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections on Could 7.

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Printed: 03 Could 2024, 07:33 PM IST