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Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Amethi after roadshow: Top points

Amethi goes to the polls on May 6 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, which begin on Thursday.

India TV News Desk Edited by: India TV News Desk New Delhi Updated on: April 10, 2019 13:46 IST
Rahul Gandhi
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Rahul Gandhi

For the Lok Sabha elections 2019, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh with his entire family looking on. His mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and brother-in-law Robert Vadra were with him in the Collectorate when he filed his papers.

Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Amethi: Top points

  1. The three-term MP will take on Union Minister Smriti Irani
  2. The SP-BSP-RLD alliance decided not to field any candidate from the constituency
  3. Rahul Gandhi reached the Collectorate to file his papers after a roadshow through the town
  4. It was the Gandhi family's show of strength with the Congress president flanked by his sister, brother-in-law and their two children in the open truck
  5. Surging crowds of Congress supporters walked along as the truck made its way to the Collectorate
  6. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was not part of the roadshow but reached the Collectorate to back her son
  7. Rahul Gandhi is also contesting from Wayanad in Kerala. He filed his nomination papers from there on April 4
  8. Amethi goes to the polls on May 6 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, which begin on Thursday

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(With PTI inputs)

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