The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Saturday fielded Navya Haridas in opposition to Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the upcoming Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll.
The social gathering has additionally launched the checklist of candidates for meeting by-elections from Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal.
The Election Fee of India (ECI) on Tuesday introduced the date for the bypoll on the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.The polling will held on November 13 and the outcome will probably be declared on November 23.
The seat was vacated after Rahul Gandhi, chief of the opposition in Lok Sabha, selected to retain the Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh following his victory in each constituencies on this yr’s parliamentary elections.
After Rahul vacated the seat, the Congress social gathering determined to discipline Priyanka Gandhi from Wayanad on her ballot debut, which displays the social gathering’s strategic significance the Gandhi household attaches to the constituency.
The Communist Get together of India (CPI), which is an ally of the Congress social gathering within the opposition INDIA bloc, has determined to discipline Sathyan Mokeri in opposition to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who’s Congress’s common secretary.
“The CPI has determined to discipline Sathyan Mokeri in opposition to Congress candidate Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the upcoming Wayanad Lok Sabha bypolls. He contested the Wayanad Loksabha election in 2014,” CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam mentioned on Thursday.
Rahul Gandhi’s re-election with a majority of three.6 lakh votes in 2024, regardless of a dip in voter turnout, bolstered Wayanad’s standing as a stronghold for Congress. Since his spectacular victory in 2019, the place he received by a margin of 4.3 lakh votes regardless of a loss in Amethi, Rahul harassed that Wayanad is a part of his household.
