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Lok Sabha Election 2024: Soon after the Congress party ended its suspense on its Amethi and Raebareli candidates and fielded Rahul Gandhi from the traditional Gandhi family seat of Raebareli, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a poll rally in West Bengal on Friday said Gandhi ran away from Amethi due to fear of losing elections. PM Modi also reminded that he had earlier said Rahul Gandhi was looking for a new seat, other than Wayanad.

"I said before that the 'Shehzada' (prince) will be defeated by Wayanad and soon after the elections at Wayanad will be over, he will go in search of a second seat. His followers claimed that he would fight from Amethi. But, it seems that he is scared of Amethi too. So now the 'prince' is trying to find an escape route from Raebareli. They ask everyone 'Daro Mat'. Today, I also ask them, Daro Mat, Bhago Mat," PM Modi said during a poll rally in Bardhaman-Durgapur, as quoted by ANI

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This comes after the Congress decided to field Rahul Gandhi from the Raebareli constituency, the seat held by his mother Sonia Gandhi for the last two decades. While the grand old party fielded Kishori Lal Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat. Rahul Gandhi and Sharma are set to file their nominations today, the last date for filing nomination papers. 

Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi arrived at the Fursatganj Airport in Amethi along with his mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and brother-in-law Robert Vadra head of the nomination filing. They were accompanied by former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot. 

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Meanwhile, BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani has reacted to Gandhi’s candidature from Raebareli and said, “No member of the Gandhi family contesting from Amethi in itself is an indication that Congress has accepted its defeat from Amethi even before elections.”

Union Minister Piyush Goyal also emphasised that the country will not forgive Congress. "No matter where he goes, his defeat is certain. The way that family has betrayed the people time and again and have done the politics of appeasement...this country will never forgive them,” Goyal was quoted as saying by ANI.