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New Delhi: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that party chief Mallikarjun Kharge will finalise the candidates for the highly anticipated, Rae Bareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and the announcement will be made soon.
While addressing a press conference at AICC headquarters in Delhi on Wednesday, Jairam Ramesh said, “CEC has authorized the Congress President for Rae Bareli and Amethi and he will take the decision soon and you will know officially in the next 24 to 30 hours.”
Congress held a Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting earlier on April 27 to discuss on the candidates for the remaining seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.|
Sources said that a proposal was given from the UP Congress to the CEC that the Gandhi family should contest the Amethi and Raibareli seats and the decision was left to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.
Rahul Gandhi lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi in the 2019 elections, a constituency he had been representing for 15 years.
Earlier on Monday, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani filed her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and expressed confidence that people will bless the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the elections.
