Lucknow, March 18 -- In the history of parliamentary elections, Congress is likely to go to the polls without any member of the Gandhi family contesting from Uttar Pradesh which sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha.
In 2019, Congress president Sonia Gandhi won the only seat for the party in UP after she retained the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who represented Amethi in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2019, faced defeat in the 2019 elections against Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Smriti Irani.
Sources suggest that Rahul Gandhi has declined to contest from Amethi again, while his sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has refused to enter the electoral fray in Rae Bareli. Sonia Gandhi has already declared that she i...