Amethi, May 3– Amethi, one of the high profile seats of UP, is considered to be the traditional seat of the Gandhi family. Since 1999, the Gandhi family was always in the fray from the political battle of Amethi.
After 25 years, there will be such an occasion when no one from the Gandhi family will be a Congress candidate from here. Actually, in the list of contenders released on Friday morning.
Kishori Lal Sharma has been made a contender from Amethi. The political atmosphere regarding this has changed once again. In the year 1999, Sonia Gandhi contested her first election from Amethi.
Later, Sonia Gandhi left this seat for her son in the year 2004. Rahul Gandhi won the elections in 2004, 2009, 2014 but, he lost the election in 2019 to BJP’s Smriti Irani. In 1998, Captain Satish Sharma, close to the Gandhi family, had contested elections from this seat. Since then this seat has been continuously reserved for the Gandhi family.