Rahul to retain Raebareli, Priyanka to fight from Wayanad: Congress — IANSNew Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, June 17 (IANS) Congress President Mallikarjuna Kharge announced on Monday that Rahul Gandhi, who was elected from both Kerala’s Wayanad and UP’s Raebareli in the recent Lok Sabha elections, will relinquish the former seat where Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will be fielded as the party candidate for the ensuing bypoll. “We all in the Congress have decided that Rahul Gandhi will remain the MP from Raebareli. Thus we have decided that Priyanka Gandhi will fight the polls from Wayanad,” Kharge said. Rahul Gandhi said that he has “an emotional relationship with Raebareli and the people of Wayanad”. IUML supremo Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal told the media that they had informed the Gandhi family that in case Rahul Gandhi vacates Wayanad, they want Priyanka Gandhi to replace him.
