Rahul Gandhi while addressing a press conference on Wednesday took a jibe at a reporter when he asked the Congress leader the reason he chose Wayanad to fight Lok Sabha polls instead of Amethi and Rae Bareli.

“This is BJP’s question, very good. Whatever order I will get, I will follow it. In our party, all these (selections of candidates) decisions are taken by the CEC,” Gandhi said in response to whether he would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi or Raebareli.

In a counter to Gandhi's statement, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla criticised the Congress leader, suggesting that he evaded the question by attributing it to BJP influence. Poonawalla compared Gandhi's response to the alleged media suppression tactics associated with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and said.

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“This question was posed by Left leaders including Brinda Karat ji when they fielded Annie Raja ji Is Rahul implying the Left is akin to BJP! If yes why ally with them? Seems Indira ji DNA of attacking press has been passed on to Rahul baba too,” Shehzad Poonawalla in a post on X.

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The Lok Sabha election 2024 is set to commence from day after tomorrow and the grand old party is yet to decide the candidates for Gandhi family’s bastion Amethi and Raebareli. In the previous 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi in a major setback to Congress. While the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat was held by Sonia Gandhi since 2004, this year she moved to Rajya Sabha.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was addressing a joint press conference with INDIA alliance leader and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Reacting to PM Modi's recent remarks on the scrapped electoral bonds scheme, Gandhi stated that it was the “biggest extortion scheme in the world”. Rahul Gandhi further alleged that PM Modi's recent interview to ANI was "scripted and a flop show".

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Speaking on the BJP’s seat share in this Lok Sabha election, Rahul said, “I do not do prediction of seats. 15-20 days ago I was thinking BJP would win around 180 seats but now I think they will get 150 seats. We are getting reports from every state that we are improving. We have a very strong alliance in Uttar Pradesh and we will perform very well.


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