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Union Minister Smriti Irani has been fielded form Amethi by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) once again after defeating sitting MP and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by about 55,000 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls...
Amethi, a pocket borough of the Nehru-Gandhi family, was taken over by Irani in the 2019 general election, a remarkable comeback after unsuccessfully contesting against Gandhi in Amethi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, losing by over one lakh votes...
A former textiles minister and presently holding the Ministry of Women and Child Development along with Ministry of Minority Affairs, Irani expressed gratitude to the party for and vowed to maintain the pace of development in the Uttar Pradesh constituency...
"I have full faith that with the strong public opinion in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Modi ji, the lotus of good governance, service and poor welfare (lotus) is going to bloom for the third time in the country," she said in post on X...
Post announcing her plan to construct a permanent residence in Amethi in 2019, Irani purchased 11 biswa (1,650 sq yard or 14850 sqft) land in the village of Mawai in Gauriganj Tehsil in 2021 and built a luxurious house, where she has now performed the Griha Pravesh ceremony recently...
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