India: Rahul Gandhi’s announcement to contest from his native seat

India The main opposition party Congress has announced on Friday that the party leader Rahul Gandhi North of the presidency Uttar Pradesh from his native seat of the city of Rae Bareilly Election year Will participate in 2024.

Congress and Gandhi family’s decision to field Rahul from Uttar Pradesh seat Prime Minister Narendra Modi It is a sign of his confidence to challenge the political power of the Ki Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), where the Hindu nationalist party has been in power for many years.

The move is also expected to boost the morale of party workers in India’s most populous state, where the BJP and regional parties have almost wiped out the name of the Congress.

Uttar Pradesh has played a major role in India’s general elections where the state holds the largest number of seats in the Lok Sabha.

India’s general elections have started from April 19 and will be completed across the country in seven phases till June 1. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.

The Congress has ruled India for 54 of the 76 years since the country’s independence. Nehru and members of the Gandhi family have been prime ministers for more than 37 of those 54 years.

This section contains related reference points (Related Nodes field).

Rae Bareli and the adjoining constituencies of Amethi have been the political stronghold of the Gandhi family for decades.

However, since being ousted from power by Modi in 2014, the Congress has lost popularity in the city and the entire state as it struggles to regain lost ground.

Rahul Gandhi’s mother is of Italian origin Sonia Gandhi won from Rae Bareilly in 2019 while Rahul lost from Amethi to BJP minister Smriti Irani. After which he was elected from the southern state of Kerala and reached the Parliament.

This year, Sonia Gandhi has chosen to become a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, instead of contesting the election from Rae Bareli.