Smriti Irani trails in Amethi as Kishori Lal Sharma extends lead by over 1.5 lakh votes
The Hindu
Amethi News: Smriti Irani is trailing in Amethi with Kishori Lal Sharma of the Congress extending his lead by a big margin.
In a big upset for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani, dubbed a giant slayer after she defeated Rahul Gandhi from the seat in the 2019 elections, is trailing Congress’s Kishori Lal Sharma in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the Election Commission data, Mr. Sharma extended a lead of over one lakh votes against the BJP leader.
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Mr. Sharma hails from Punjab’s Ludhiana. He began his stint with Rajiv Gandhi, managing the Amethi Lok Sabha seat for him. The former PM won this seat four times in 1981, 1984, 1989 and posthumously in 1991. He is said to have played a crucial role in former Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s victory from Amethi in 1999. When she shifted to Rae Bareli leaving the seat for her son in 2004, Mr. Sharma began managing both constituencies.
In the run-up to the 2024 polls, Priyanka Gandhi camped in the family bastions of Rae Bareli and Amethi for about two weeks and campaigned extensively for Mr. Sharma and her brother Rahul Gandhi, who contested from Rae Bareli.
The former Congress chief lost Amethi to Ms. Irani in the 2019 elections.
As he looked on course to win the Gandhi family bastion on Tuesday, party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra congratulated Mr. Sharma, saying she was sure from the beginning that he would win. “Kishori bhaiya, I never had any doubts, I was sure from the beginning that you would win. Hearty congratulations to you and my dear brothers and sisters of Amethi!” Priyanka Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
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