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Achi news desk-
New Delhi: Only 2 days are left for the 3rd phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024. A lot of preparations are going on for the elections. The fourth stage will take place on May 20 and the nomination has already been submitted. Right now, from Amethi Constituency, which the country is looking forward to, after 2 decades, a non-Gandhi candidate is joining the fray from the Congress. Assumptions of Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra competing yesterday, the Congress on Friday pitted Kishori Lal Sharma, who is close to the Gandhi family, against Smriti Irani of the BJP. A Gandhi family loyalist, Sharma filed his nomination papers from Amethi on Friday.
History of Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency
Amethi Lok Sabha constituency was formed in 1967 after the devolution of parliamentary constituencies. This parliamentary constituency includes Tiloy, Salon, Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Amethi assembly constituencies. Vidyadhar Bajpai of the Congress was the MP from this constituency for 10 years between 1967 and 1977. Later this field came into the hands of the Gandhi family.
Sanjay Gandhi was the first candidate of the Nehru family
In 1977, Sanjay Gandhi, the youngest son of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, made his electoral debut from Amethi. Sanjay Gandhi lost his first election to Rabindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party as anti-Congress sentiment ran high in the country during the Emergency. The people of Amethi voted for a non-Congress candidate for the first time.
What is special is that Indira Gandhi was also defeated in the same election in Rae Bareilly, one of the strongholds of the Congress. Amethi and Rae Bareilly, the strongholds of the Congress, had suffered a massive loss in one election.
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Amethi again under the wing of the Congress
In 1980, Sanjay Gandhi won from Amethi. But his period was cut short by his sudden death in a plane crash. After the death of Sanjay Gandhi, his elder brother Rajiv Gandhi entered politics. In the 1981 Amethi by-election, Rajiv Gandhi won against Lok Dal candidate Sharad Yadav by over 2 lakh votes.
Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi. Amethi won a hat-trick of elections in 1984, 1989 and 1991.
Ticket for a friend twice
After Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991, close family member Satish Sharma won a by-election to the Amethi seat. He was re-elected in 1996. Two years later, Mr Sharma lost the 1998 Lok Sabha elections to BJP’s Sanjay Singh. When Sonia Gandhi made her debut in politics
In 1999, Rajiv Gandhi’s wife Sonia Gandhi entered active politics by making her debut from the Amethi constituency. After five years, he gave up the seat for his son Rahul Gandhi and started contesting from Rae Bareilly.
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Rahul Gandhi’s performance in Amethi
In the next three elections in 2004, Rahul Gandhi contested in Amethi and continued the legacy of the Gandhi family. But in 2019, he suffered a shock defeat against BJP’s Smriti Irani.
Since Amethi became a Lok Sabha constituency, the Congress party has lost Amethi only three times. Defeated in 1977, 1998 and 2019. With Kishori Lal Sharma contesting from the Congress this time, it is the first time in 25 years that a non-Gandhi is contesting from the Amethi constituency on a Congress ticket.
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