Rahul has not done justice to Amethi: Yogi
Amethi: utar pradesh chief minister yogi adityanth said on Thursday that Congress President Rahul Gandhi has not done justice to his parliamentary constituency Amethi.
Speaking at a roadshow of BJP candidate and Union Minister Smriti Irani before she filed her nomination papers in Amethi, Adityanath said Irani always remained concerned about the town’s development and the huge turnout of supporters was proof of her work even ater she lost the 2014 elections.
Smriti Irani said that her victory was ensured in the fact that the Congress President was forced to contest from two Lok Sabha seats.
“Rahul Gandhi has already accepted his defeat,” she stated and added that the lotus would bloom this time in Amethi which had been a Congress bastion till now.
Irani, accompanied by her husband Zubin Irani and clad in a saffron and green sari, filed her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, seting the tone for a fiercely contested batle with Gandhi.
She performed a “havan” before she set out to file the nomination papers.
Irani lost the 2014 election to Gandhi by a margin of over one lakh votes.
Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani, who is contesting against Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday filed her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections.
Irani filed the nomination at the District Magistrate’s office in Gauriganj. She was accompanied by Utar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Earlier, she held a four-kilometre roadshow, cheered by supporters.
Irani earlier let the guest house at Gauriganj, the district headquarters of Amethi, along with her husband Zubin Irani.
On her way, she prayed at a temple and then went straight to participate in a puja organised at the BJP office here. Smriti Irani is contesting against the Congress President for a second time.
In 2014, despite a Modi wave, she lost to Gandhi by a margin of over 1.07 lakh votes.
On Wednesday, the Congress President filed his nomination from Amethi and held a road show in the city.
Amethi is considered a bastion of the Congress. The seat has remained mostly with the Congress since 1980.
The parliamentary seat of Amethi was first represented by Sanjay Gandhi between 1989-81. Ater his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv Gandhi represented the seat till 1991.