Varanasi news
Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai. File
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Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on June 12 said the Explain unit wanted Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the celebration made up our minds that she must aloof advertising and marketing campaign across the nation.
This comes a day after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said at a rally in Raebareli that had his sister contested the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, PM Modi would glean misplaced by two or three lakh votes.
The Congress had fielded Mr. Rai from the Varanasi Parliamentary seat. PM Modi defeated Mr. Rai with a margin of 1,52,513 votes. “We wanted Priyanka Gandhi to strive in opposition to in opposition to Modi in Varanasi. However the celebration did no longer snatch a name on it because she had to rush across the nation at some level of the polls,” Mr. Rai rapid PTI Movies, in Lucknow.
Mr. Modi’s victory margin this year changed into less than the 2019 and 2014 frequent elections when he obtained by 4,79,505 and 3,71,784 votes, respectively. Mr. Rai said the Congress in conjunction with its INDIA bloc allies will undertake a ‘dhanyavad yatra‘ to thank the folks for supporting the Opposition coalition. He additionally said that the INDIA bloc parties will strive in opposition to the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections together to oust the BJP.
Mr. Rai said the BJP legislators and personnel were in a “feel-appropriate” mood and pondering that PM Modi is a ticket name that will with out problems safe the polls in Varanasi. “Folks and INDIA coalition companions made the saffron celebration sweat in Varanasi,” he said.
The BJP, which romped to vitality in 2019 on the wait on of an unequivocal mandate from Uttar Pradesh, worthwhile 62 of its 80 seats, changed into lower to dimension this time and wanted to be shriek material with handiest 33.
