BREAKING | Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to Represent Rae Bareli, Forego Wayanad Seat: Sources

New Delhi: Ending weeks of speculations, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who got a thumping mandate in both Wayan and Rae Bareli seats in Lok Sabha election 2024 has decided to represent Rae Bareli seat, claimed sources in party fold on Saturday. 

former Congress President won Rae Bareli seat by a margin of 3.90 lakh votes and emerged victorious from Wayan seat by a margin of 3.6 lakh votes. 

party sources furr revealed that Congress is planning to field a local Kerala Congress worker from Wayan seat after it becomes vacant with Rahul Gandhi's resignation. 

sentiment in Gandhi bastion for Rahul Gandhi to retain Rae Bareli thrived since he won seat, given his family’s dece-old ties with constituency.

Since 1999, Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency has been represented by Congress and was won by Sonia Gandhi in 2019. Sonia Gandhi handed over tritional seat to her son Rahul after she moved to Rajya Sabha earlier this year.

Rae Bareli was only Lok Sabha constituency Congress won in 2019 Lok Sabha elections in UP.