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Amethi/Raebareli:With the Lok Sabha elections underway, the people of the adjacent constituencies of Amethi and Raebareli in central Uttar Pradesh, are not surprised to have journalists flocking their villages and asking them about who they will vote for...
The stories of how the Gandhis first set foot Indira Gandhi in Raebareli, and Sanjay and Rajiv in Amethi; the way they would interact with the villagers; the development projects they delivered are carried from generation to generation, almost as family lores...
And if the people of Amethi and Raebareli have supported the Gandhis for so long, they also hold them especially Sonia and Rahul responsible for their plight today...
He began to monitor it regularly, and when the first elections happened in independent India, he sent his son-in-law Feroze Gandhi to fight here, Vidrohi says.. Locally known as theMunshiganj goli kand, the episode is widely remembered by the people of Raebareli as the starting point of their relationship with the Nehru-Gandhi family..
Rahul and Sonia were voted over and over again by the people of Amethi and Raebareli because of Indira, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi, says Mishra,the senior journalist.But.
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