Priyanka Gandhi will face tough competition in Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll: Kerala BJP candidate Navya Hariprasad

Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], October 20 (ANI): BJP's candidate from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, Navya Haridas on Sunday said that her opponent from Congress Priyanka Gandhi would be facing tough competition in the ensuing bypolls in which both of them are pitted against each other.
Meanwhile the LDF has put up Sathyan Mokeri as their candidate for the November 13 elections.
"My opponent is Priyanka Gandhi and all I can say is Congress will be facing tough competition in Wayanad. Rahul Gandhi has given up his seat in Wayanad to retain his seat in Raebareli. When the people of Wayanad faced the landslides, they did not have a representative to raise their issues in the Parliament," Navya Hariprasad told ANI.
"The case is going to be similar if Priyanka Gandhi is going to be elected to the Wayanad Lok Sabha. In the last five years, Rahul Gandhi hardly visited the constituency and he has desperately failed to address the issues faced by the people here.This will be my first Lok Sabha elections," Haridas, an office-bearer of BJP Mahil Morcha in Kerala said.
BJP on Saturday declared the two-time councillor in the Kozhikode Corporation as its candidate from Wayanad.
The seat was vacated by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was also elected to Lok Sabha from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh in the general elections held earlier this year.
Priyanka Gandhi will file her nomination papers on October 23, Congress sources said. Priyanka and Rahul will hold a roadshow ahead of the nomination filing, they added.
This will be debut election for Priyanka Gandhi. Congress party approved Priyanka Gandhi's candidature on October 15, after the bypoll schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India.
Wayanad will go to the polls on November 13 along with voting for bye-elections in 47 assembly seats across 15 states. The first phase of assembly polls in Jharkhand will also be held on November 13.(ANI)