The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won heavily in the recent elections, taking three Hindi heartland states - Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh. The Assembly elections, which are held in the winter months prior to the Lok Sabha elections, are viewed as a semi-final before the major fight. Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, BJP is gearing up to give a strong fight to I.N.D.I.A bloc in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh that has 80 parliamentary seats by focussing on the Assembly constituencies it lost in the state elections last year. Meanwhile, ABP and CVoter reached out to the people of the state to find out that should Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi contest upcoming general elections from Uttar Pradesh.
As per the findings, as many as 50% people are in favor of Rahul-Priyanka contesting the Lok Sabha elections from UP. Apart from this, 33% have said that Rahul-Priyanka should not contest the Lok Sabha elections from the state. Whereas 17% people did not express a clear opinion.
Earlier, Smriti Irani, a Union Minister and BJP leader, won the Amethi seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which was renowned as a Gandhi bastion. Smiriti Irani defeated Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi by 55,120 votes. Smriti Irani received 4,68,514 votes, while Rahul Gandhi received just 4,13,394 votes.
In 2014, Rahul received 408651 votes against Irani's 30,0748 votes. The BJP's hard campaign and repeated attempts to make inroads in Amethi over the years were ascribed to the tiny margin of victory of roughly one lakh votes. Rahul's margin of victory was significantly smaller than the 3.7 lakh votes he received in 2009.
[Disclaimer: This Opinion poll was conducted by CVoter among 13,115 adults across 543 Lok Sabha seats in India between December 15, 2023 to December 21, 2023. Sometimes the table figures do not sum to 100 due to the effects of rounding off. The margin of error is +/- 3% at the macro level and +/- 5% at the micro level.]