'Rae Bareli calling': Priyanka Gandhi's posters put up in Congress stronghold

Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha election, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's supporters have put up posters in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli, demanding that she contest from the Congress stronghold.

"Congress ke vikas karyo ko aagey badhaiye. Rae Bareli Pukarti, Priyanka Gandhi Ji aaiye (Take Congress's development work forward, Rae Bareli is calling, Priyanka Gandhi, please come)," the poster read.

Rae Bareli is a traditional Congress bastion, represented since 2004 by Priyanka's mother and former Congress President Sonia Gandhi. She opted out of the general elections this year citing health reasons.

Sonia Gandhi was elected unupposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in February.

Since Sonia's decision to step aside, speculation has been rife that her daughter Priyanka would contest from Rae Bareli instead.

The prestige seat had been earlier represented by former Prime Minister, late Indira Gandhi. From this seat, Indira Gandhi also lost to Raj Narain in the 1977 general election - the only sitting Prime Minister to lose a Lok Sabha contest.

Neither the Congress nor the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced their candidates for the Lok Sabha seat.

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