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Wayanad: Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate from Wayanad, Annie Raja filed her nomination against Congress sitting MP and candidate Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday...
Speaking about Rahul Gandhi, who is Congress partys key candidate from Wayanad, Raja said that she is not worried about his fate and only reaching out to people by informing them about her partys stand on national issues...
We are confident, we are here to contest and win, the CPI candidate said.. Complaining of the alleged negligence of Wayanad by Rahul Gandhi, Raja said, People are coming to me and saying that they never voted for that symbol (Congress partys) before the last election but they were told that he would become the Prime Minister..
While the CPI and the Congress are partners in the opposition INDIA bloc, the two parties are fierce contenders in Kerala with both parties pitting their strongest candidates against each other...
Rahul Gandhi bagged 706,367 votes from Wayanad with 64.7 per cent vote share in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls..
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