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Achi news desk-
Wayanad (A.26): Voting for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections is underway. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is once again contesting in the Kerala Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency. This time Rahul Gandhi will face BJP. Surendran and CPI are with Annie Raja. Rahul Gandhi had won from this constituency for the first time in 2019. He got 7,06,367 votes in that election. However, Rahul Gandhi won the election by more than 4 lakh votes.
In fact, this time we might see a triangular fight in Wayanad. In 2019, Rahul Gandhi registered a landslide victory in all seven Wayanad Lok Sabha assembly seats. CPI leader PP Suneer was second.
Congress is strong in the south
There are 7 assembly seats in Wayanad Lok Sabha. It includes Kalpetta, Mananthawadi, Battery Sultan, Thiruvambadi, Ernad, Nilambur and Vandur. Kalpetta and Mananthawadi are reserved for Scheduled Tribe (ST) while Vandur is reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC). Meanwhile, according to the 2011 census of Wayanad district, out of a population of 8,17,420, Wayanad district has 49.48% Hindus, 28.65% Muslims and 21.34% Christians.
Information about Wayanad
Wayanad contains the words vyal and nadu. It means paddy land. Two types of rice from Wayanad, once famous for rice, have been given a GI tag, but farmers are gradually abandoning it and turning to profitable farming. Wayanad city is famous as Kashi of South. In 1980 it became the 12th district of Kerala. Later in 2009 due to delimitation, the Senate became a Lok Sabha seat.
Seven assembly seats fall below it. It is located on the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Wayanad is said to have the only Love-Kush temple in the country. But, prosperous Wayanad is famous for natural spices and medicinal products, rubber, banana, tea-coffee, bamboo plantation, black pepper and cardamom.
In 2019, he lost from Amethi
Rahul Gandhi first contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 from his father Rajiv Gandhi’s traditional constituency Amethi. Rahul Gandhi had won this election by more than one lakh votes. In the 2009 general elections, Rahul Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi for the second time. He won this election by a large margin and reached parliament. The big thing is that the Congress won 21 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the general elections of 2009. The party has given the credit to Rahul Gandhi.
At the same time, when the Lok Sabha elections were held in 2014, the BJP fielded Smriti Irani, this time to challenge Rahul Gandhi. At that time the new party Aam Aadmi Party sent Kumar Vishwas to contest the elections. However, Rahul Gandhi managed to win the election and became the MP from Amethi for the third consecutive time.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP once again fielded Smriti Irani as its candidate against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, but this time Rahul Gandhi faced defeat. At the same time, Rahul Gandhi contested the Kerala Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency election. From here he managed to win.
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