Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma is currently leading by a significant margin of over 90,000 votes in the Amethi parliamentary seat against the BJP's Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019.
According to the latest trends available on the Election Commission website, Sharma is leading by 90,000 votes.
Gandhi represented the Amethi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2019.
In the 2019 general election, he lost the seat to Irani by a margin of 55,102 votes. Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kerala's Wayanad.
Priyanka congratulates KL Sharma
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra congratulated the party's Amethi candidate, Kishori Lal Sharma, as he looked on course to win the Gandhi family bastion, saying she was sure he would win from the beginning.
"Kishori bhaiya, I never had any doubts, I was sure from the beginning that you would win. Hearty congratulations to you and my dear brothers and sisters of Amethi!" Priyanka Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
According to Election Commission data at 2:20 p.m., Sharma was leading in the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency by more than 90,000 votes over Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani.
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