Congress leader Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Wayanad | Lok Sabha polls 2024

After holding a roadshow in Kerala’s Wayanad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has officially filed his nomination papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Other senior Congress leaders, including his sister Priyanka Gandhi and AICC general secretaries K C Venugopal and Deepa Das, were also present with him.

Rahul Gandhi had won the 2019 Parliament polls from Wayanad with a massive margin of more than four lakh votes.

The Congress MP addressed a crowd, that included party workers and supporters, gathered to be part of his roadshow. Thousands of people, including UDF leaders and workers, turned up at Kalpetta to welcome Rahul Gandhi.

"I am deeply grateful to the people of Wayanad for their unwavering support. As we step into a new era of 'Nyay', I want to reaffirm my dedication to serving each and every one of you to the best of my abilities," he said.

Rahul will be contesting against BJP state president K Surendran and CPI leader Annie Raja from the Wayanad LS constituency.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won after polling 7,06,367 votes out of a total of 10,92,197 with his closest rival -- CPI's P P Suneer -- receiving only 2,74,597 votes.

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