In Amethi, Congress Pins Its Hope On A Non-Gandhi After 26 Years
NDTV
Kishori Lal Sharma will only be the second non-Gandhi Congress candidate in three decades to fight from Amethi.
The Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh had been a Gandhi family stronghold until it fell to a strong BJP wave in 2019. While his supporters would have expected Rahul Gandhi to make a bid to reclaim this lost fortress, the Congress has chosen a non-Gandhi after 26 long years for the task.
Kishori Lal Sharma, an ardent loyalist of the Gandhi family, is the Congress candidate from Amethi this time. He will only be the second non-Gandhi Congress candidate in three decades to fight from the seat held by at least four Gandhi family members at different times.
The last non-Gandhi candidate from this seat was Satish Sharma, who won it twice after it had fallen vacant following the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. But he tasted defeat in the 1998 election.
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