LS Election 2019: Sonia to contest from Rae Bareli, Rahul from Amethi

The Congress party on Thursday released the first list of candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2019. The list includes the name of Sonia Gandhi who will contest elections from Rae Bareli while INC president Rahul Gandhi will fight from Amethi. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats out of which the Congress had won just two (Amethi and Raebareli) in 2014, while Gujarat has 26 seats and the Congress had drawn a blank in 2014.
In the list, finalised at a meeting of the party's central election committee chaired by Rahul Gandhi, includes 5 names, 11 are from Uttar Pradesh and 4 from Gujarat. On Twitter, Congress wrote "Announcement of first list of candidates selected by Congress Central Election Committee for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections."