Rahul Gandhi will contest 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Amethi, claims UP leader Ajay Rai

Rahul Gandhi would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections again from Amethi with which the Nehru-Gandhi family has old ties, Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Ajay Rai claimed on Wednesday.

Rai, the regional head of the party in UP, also said that it is his appeal to the people of Amethi to send Rahul Gandhi to Delhi by electing him as an MP again with a huge margin.

"The Gandhi-Nehru family has old relations with Amethi...no one can weaken it. Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi in 2024," Rai told reporters



here.

There has been no word from the party so far on the former Congress president fighting the next parliamentary elections again from Amethi.

Rahul Gandhi, who had won the Amethi parliamentary seat for three times in a row, was defeated by BJP leader and Union minister Smriti Irani in 2019 elections.

He is currently representing Kerala's Wayanad constituency in Lok Sabha.

Rahul Gandhi's parents Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi had won from Amethi in the past.