Days after Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma filed his nomination from Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, vehicles parked outside the Congress office in Gauriganj, Amethi were vandalised by unidentified people on Sunday night.
Amethi and Rae Bareli -- two constituencies considered old turfs of the Gandhi family has again become the point of focus as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has entered the fray in Rae Bareli and family's close aide Kishori Lal Sharma has been fielded against Smriti Irani in Amethi.
Rohan Gupta, former Congress spokesperson who is now a BJP leader, said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) controls the Congress party and will go against the grand old party as soon as the Lok Sabha election concludes.
Responding to the BJP calling him a 'peon' of the Gandhis, the Congress' Amethi candidate KL Sharma on Sunday said he was a 'pure politician' and not a servant of the family, adding that Union Minister Smriti Irani, who holds the seat currently, will be defeated in the ongoing Lok Sabha e
mid huge uproar in the political spectrum over Rahul Gandhi's candidacy from Rae Bareli instead of Amethi, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that it is a well strategized move of the party and that other facets of the decision still remain to be seen.
After Rahul Gandhi was named by the Congress as its candidate from Raebareli Lok Sabha seat, Union Minister and BJP's candidate from Amethi, Smriti Irani on Friday said that Gandhi family has conceded defeat from here even before casting one vote, adding that the Congress would not have f
Union Minister Anurag Thakur, on Friday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for escaping the Amethi Lok Sabha seat and said that it is the fear of defeat that has made the Congress party take this step.
Following the announcement by the Congress to field Rahul Gandhi from Raebareli, Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Friday said that Congress has nothing to show on the development front in the Amethi Lok Sabha seat and hence decided to run away and fieled
After KL Sharma was fielded from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, Congress workers expressed happiness over his candidature, saying that "there is no shortage of enthusiasm among party members."
After Congress on Friday announced its Lok Sabha candidates for Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra extended her wishes to Kishori Lal Sharma, the man believed to be behind the victory of the party's former president Sonia Gandhi from the pocket borough o
After the Congress ended weeks of suspense around its choice of candidates from Raebareli and Amethi Lok Sabha constituencies, naming Rahul Gandhi and KL Sharma as its picks from the traditional strongholds; the Wayanad MP, along with his mother Sonia Gandhi and several Congress heavyweig