loksabha chunav 2024: Sonia Gandhi is expected to run in the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections, giving her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra her seat in the Lok Sabha, according to reports from many media outlets that cited sources with knowledge of the situation. Sonia Gandhi, the former president of the Congress, will run for a seat in North India in the Rajya Sabha on February 27.
There are rumours that Sonia Gandhi may be nominated from a Rajasthani seat and will run for the Lok Sabha from her family’s home state of Raebareli.
The party might put forward Sonia Gandhi for the single Himachal Pradesh seat.
The two Gandhi ladies will be making history if Sonia Gandhi moves to the Rajya Sabha and gives Priyanka Gandhi Vadra control of Raebareli.
If Sonia Gandhi decides to accept a Rajya Sabha seat, it will be her first time serving in the Upper House. Gandhi, 77, has served five terms as a Lok Sabha lawmaker. This would be Priyanka Gandhi’s first election if she were to run for the Lok Sabha seats for Raebareli.
During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Sonia Gandhi declared that it would be her final general election contest
Candidates for the Rajya Sabha seats from the states of Karnataka, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra must be nominated by the Congress.
Tika Ram Jully, the leader of the opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, meantime, pleaded with the high command to declare Sonia Gandhi’s candidature from Rajasthan.
“We have asked the president of the country and the high command to propose Sonia Gandhi, a resident of Rajasthan, for the Rajya Sabha. All of the state’s Congress employees will be overjoyed if she is elected from this area, the Congress leader declared.
Party chairman Mallikarjun Kharge met with top Congress leaders Gandhi, Mukul Wasnik and Salman Khurshid from the party’s national alliance committee, and treasurer Ajay Maken at his home on February 27 to discuss the names of party candidates for the impending Rajya Sabha elections. Hindustan Times said that KC Venugopal, the organization’s general secretary, attended the meeting on Monday as well.
No candidates have yet been announced by the Congress for the 56 seats from 15 states up for election every two years. Nominations must be submitted by February 15th, and elections are scheduled for February 27th.
Congress, meanwhile, asserted that Ashok Chavan, who left the party on Monday, had discussed “tremendous pressure” to defect from probe agencies with Congress president Kharge during their meeting last week.