Key Points
Smriti Irani, Rahul Gandhi's Amethi nemesis, will be in Wayanad on Thursday as the BJP state president files his nomination papers to take on the Gandhi family scion for the Lok Sabha 2024 polls..
The BJP and Smriti Irani have kept the pressure on Rahul Gandhi over Wayanad, and don't want it to be a cakewalk for him...
"Kaun kehta hai aasman mein suraakh ho nahi sakta...(Who says there can't be a hole in the sky...)," said Smriti Irani while proclaiming her victory in Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls..
The next Lok Sabha elections of 2019, which saw Smriti Irani dislodge Rahul Gandhi from the Congress-held seat, had seen the Congress party acknowledge Gandhi's diminishing popularity in Amethi, before the polls...
BJP's Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi by 55,000 votes, but Rahul Gandhi reached Parliament in 2019 from the safe seat of Wayanad..
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