Rahul Gandhi’s victory margin in Amethi in this year’s Lok Sabha election is almost similar to that achieved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi during the 2019 general election.
Rahul Gandhi, a Congress MP, contested the constituencies of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Wayanad in Kerala. He won both by a commanding majority of votes.
Gandhi defeated Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India (CPI) by an overwhelming 3,64,422 votes, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI) website. The Congressman defeated BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh in Rae Bareli, the party’s historic stronghold, by an overwhelming majority of 3,89,341 votes. With just 21,588 votes, Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) came in third.
After defeating Congress candidate Ajay Rai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was able to win the Varanasi seat for a third consecutive term. This time, Modi’s victory margin is 1,52,513, which is less than his margins from 2014 and 2019.
This is not the first time Rahul Gandhi has contested from two Lok Sabha seats. He lost a hard-fought election in Amethi in 2019 to Union minister and prominent BJP figure Smriti Irani. Still, he emerged victorious in Wayanad.
The former president of Congress has been aggressively spearheading his party’s effort to enhance its electoral performance since 2014. In addition to losing the national elections, the grand old party of India lost control of other states.
Early reports from the vote count indicated that he was in a tight race with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates K Surendran in Kerala and Dinesh Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Rahul defeated PP Suneer, the candidate for the Communist Party of India (CPI), with a vote share of 64.67% over Wayanad’s 25.14%. With a recorded victory margin of 39.53%, the candidate won more than any other candidate in the constituency to date.
The Gandhi scion faced defeat in that year against Amethi, a constituency he had served three terms in a row in the lower house of Parliament between 2004 and 2019. Smriti Irani, his political rival, received 43.86% of the vote to his opponent’s 49.71%.
Rahul Gandhi selected Rae Bareli in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Sonia Gandhi, his mother, had held the seat for 20 years in a row, from 2004 to 2024. Sonia Gandhi has chosen not to participate in the sweltering heat of the Lok Sabha poll. She is currently a Rajasthani member of the Rajya Sabha.
Dinesh Pratap Singh, the BJP’s nominee, narrowed Sonia Gandhi’s victory margin in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from 42.75% to 17.44% in 2014, when she faced Ajay Agrawal of the saffron party.Wayanad cast a ballot in the second phase on April 26 with a turnout of 72.69%, while Rae Bareli cast her ballot in the fifth phase on May 20 and recorded a turnout of 58.12%.
There were seven phases to the Lok Sabha elections, which began on April 19 and covered 543 seats. With Narendra Modi serving as prime minister, the Bharatiya Janata Party is attempting to win an unusual third term in power.
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