Wayanad Lok Sabha elections 2024: K Surendran says Rahul Gandhi will meet same fate as Amethi

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Kerala BJP president K Surendran, who has been pitted against Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, said that the Congress leader will face the same outcome as Amethi where he lost in 2019 against Union minister Smriti Irani...

On Sunday, the BJP announced Surendran's candidacy from the Wayanad constituency, which is a Congress stronghold since 2009..

His name was declared along with other candidates such as actor Kangana Ranaut, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, BJP MP Maneka Gandhi, industrialist and former Congress MP Naveen Jindal, and others...

Surendran, the face of the saffron party's fierce agitations against the entry of young women into Sabarimala years ago, has been serving as the president of the state unit of the BJP since 2020...

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi had won from Wayanad by defeating Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate PP Suneer by a margin of over 4.31 lakh votes..

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