New Delhi. Union Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday took a dig at Congress leaders – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – for their padyatra in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi and said Congress leaders should be sent to Lucknow and People had to be mobilized from Chhattisgarh, which speaks volumes about their connection to Amethi.
Former Congress President Rahul and his sister Priyanka took out a foot march from Jagdishpur to Harimau village in Amethi, where Rahul Gandhi addressed a public meeting. He was participating in the public awareness campaign “BJP Bhagao, Dearness Hatao Pratigya Padyatra” organized against the policies of the Narendra Modi government. Rahul Gandhi has been an MP from Amethi for 15 years. He is visiting Amethi for the second time after he lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Amethi used to be the stronghold of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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When Amethi MP Irani was asked about the padyatra, she said, “Today brothers and sisters were in Amethi. They had to bring crowds from Lucknow, Sant Kabir Nagar and Chhattisgarh… Somebody has to work very hard today.”
He said, “The fact is that you (Nehru-Gandhi family) were representative of one constituency for 50 years, but now the condition has become that you had to bring 50 people from Lucknow to Amethi. It tells a lot about his relation to my constituency.” (agency)