Amethi Lok Sabha Seat Congress Candidate: Rae Bareli and Amethi in UP are said to be the traditional seats of the Gandhi family. From Indira to Rajiv Gandhi and from Sonia to Rahul Gandhi, half a dozen members of the Gandhi family have been MPs from Amethi or Rae Bareli. this time Lok Sabha Elections In UP too, Congress party has kept both these seats with itself in the agreement made with Akhilesh Yadav.
In the last several elections, Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli and Rahul Gandhi from Amethi used to be Congress candidates. Sonia Gandhi has now gone to Rajya Sabha, while Rahul has once again been declared a candidate from Wayanad seat in Kerala. In such a situation, the question is whether this will be the first time when no member of the Nehru-Gandhi family will contest elections from UP.
Although the Congress party has either declared or finalized the names of its candidates on most of the seventeen seats won in the agreement with Akhilesh Yadav, the suspense still persists regarding Rae Bareli and Amethi. According to discussions, no member of the Gandhi family will contest elections from any seat in UP including Amethi and Rae Bareli this time. Now the question is to whom the Gandhi family will hand over its political legacy on these traditional seats.
According to information received from reliable sources, the Gandhi family has made up its mind about possible candidates from Amethi and Rae Bareli. There are preparations to field Aradhana Mishra Mona, a dynamic woman leader from a Brahmin family, as the candidate for the Amethi seat, whose family, despite having political influence, did not leave the Congress party even in difficult times. This woman leader has been MLA for three consecutive terms.
She is a resident of near Amethi and Rae Bareli and her father Pramod Tiwari is also a Rajya Sabha MP from the Congress party. According to sources, the Congress high command has asked Aradhana Mishra Mona, leader of the legislature party in UP, to start preparations for the elections from Amethi seat.
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In fact, through Aradhana Mishra Mona, the Gandhi family is trying to snatch back its traditional seat of Amethi from the possession of BJP. BJP has made Union Minister Smriti Irani its candidate there for the third time. The Congress party wants to make the fight woman versus woman by fielding Aradhana Mishra Mona.
Born in Pratapgarh and MLA from Rampur seat for the third consecutive time, Aradhana has a bright and fighting image. He can also get the advantage of being local, because his constituency is adjacent to the border of Amethi. Apart from the traditional votes of Congress, Aradhana is also being considered to fit into the caste equation. Due to his contesting the elections, all the general category voters including Brahmins can also be seen standing in favor of Congress.
Aradhana was selected by Sonia and Priyanka themselves.
According to information received from sources, Aradhana has been selected by Sonia and Priyanka Gandhi themselves. However, the Gandhi family has also given the option to Aradhana Mishra Mona that if she wants, she can contest elections from Rae Bareli seat instead of Amethi. However, the Gandhi family wants Mona to contest against Smriti Irani from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi’s seat.
However, some party leaders suggest that Aradhana is still an MLA, hence she should not contest the Lok Sabha elections. If she is elected MP, it will not be easy for the Congress to save its seat in the Rampur assembly by-election.
The UP committee has left the decision regarding Rae Bareli and Amethi to the Gandhi family. The Gandhi family has indicated to Tiwari family’s daughter Aradhana that this time no member of the family will contest elections from UP, hence the political inheritance of one seat in Amethi or Rae Bareli will be handed over to her only.
Who is Aradhana Mona Mishra?
Aradhana Mishra Mona is the daughter of Congress’s deputy leader in Rajya Sabha and senior leader Pramod Tiwari. Pramod Tiwari is a member of Rajya Sabha for the second time. Before this, he had set a world record by being elected MLA from the same party and the same seat nine consecutive times.
Sources have also informed that a formal decision on Aradhana Mishra’s candidature will be taken in the next two days. The party high command has also called Aradhana’s father Pramod Tiwari to Delhi to take the decision. He is in Delhi for the last two days. It can be said that if the Congress Party makes Aradhana Mishra Mona the candidate from Amethi, then this time the contest there will become very interesting. It remains to be seen whether the Gandhi family will be able to regain its lost legacy in Amethi through worship or not.