Rahul Gandhi To Contest Second Seat From Kerala's Wayanad Besides Amethi | Read
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will contest the coming Lok Sabha elections from a second seat besides family stronghold Amethi. The seat will be Kerala's Wayanad, senior party leader AK Anthony announced this morning. This is the first time Mr Gandhi is contesting from a second seat. Mr Gandhi's mother, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, had trounced Sushma Swaraj in Karnataka's Bellary in 1999. Amethi was the other seat she contested. His grandmother Indira Gandhi had contested from Raebareli and Medak - currently in Telangana -- in 1980.
