New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will contest from his traditional Amethi seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections while chairperson of the Congress parliamentary party Sonia Gandhi to contest from her traditional seat of Rae Bareli in the 2019 polls.
The name of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi feature in the first list of 15 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections released by the party on Thursday. The list, which was cleared by the central election committee of the Congress and released by AICC General secretary Mukul Wasnik, includes 11 seats from Uttar Pradesh and four from Gujarat.
Names of former Union Minister Salman Khurshid from Farrukhabad, Nirmal Khatri from Faizabad, AICC spokesperson R P N Singh from Kushi Nafar and Jitin Prasad from Dharahra, appeared in the list
|