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6-seat victory rekindles hope of UP Cong revival
The New Indian Express
|June 06, 2024
AFTER putting up an intense fight against rival BJP, Congress - which was reduced to just one seat in the 2019 general election bounced back emphatically by winning six seats in Uttar Pradesh, politically the most crucial state of the country, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The party sprung the surprise by winning five seats and reclaiming its bastion in Amethi, from where party's poll manager KL Sharma emerged as a giant killer, t handing out a crushing defeat to Union Minister and - high-profile BJP candidate Smriti Irani.
Irani had defeated the then Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by 55,000 votes in the 2019 general election.
While Rahul opted for Rae Bareli, the seat which was vacated by his mother, Sonia Gandhi who decided to get routed to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan earlier this margin of over 1.67 lakh votes.
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