Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma is leading by a comfortable margin of over 88,000 votes in the Amethi parliamentary seat against the BJP's Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019.
According to the latest trends available on the Election Commission website, Sharma is leading by 88,908 votes. Gandhi represented the Amethi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2019.
"This is the victory of the Gandhi family and the people of Amethi," said Congress candidate from Amethi, Kishori Lal Sharma.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra congratulated Kishori Lal for winning Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh.
"Kishori bhaiya, I never had any doubts, I was sure from the beginning that you will win. Hearty congratulations to you and my dear brothers and sisters of Amethi," said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
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In the 2019 general election, Rahul Gandhi lost the seat to Irani by a margin of 55,102 votes. Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kerala’s Wayanad.
In the counting taken up on Tuesday after the marathon seven-phased Lok Sabha election, the states presented contrasting pictures with BJP gaining ground in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh but poised to suffer losses in crucial Hindi heartland states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana.