ABP-CVoter Snap Poll: Political corridors of the country are abuzz with preparations for next year’s Lok Sabha elections and with numerous possibilities of who will fight from where and against whom. Recently, the Congress party exuded confidence in Rahul Gandhi saying that he will win Amethi if he contests from there. With the statement, a fresh debate has begun raising eyebrows about Gandhi fighting from Amethi yet again. He lost the VIP seat in 2019 against the Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) Smriti Irani. Then, he contested the Lok Sabha polls from Kerala’s Wayanad as well from where he got elected as an MP.
Now, as the chorus grows in Congress on fielding Priyanka Gandhi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, there is no doubt that the political tussle next year will definitely be intense.
ABP News and CVoter conducted a snap poll to see whether voters want to see Amethi battle with Rahul Gandhi in or without.
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When asked “should Congress leader Rahul Gandhi contest Lok Sabha election from Amethi”, 43.2 per cent of total voters responded in affirmative. 49.9 per cent of those who support the opposition and 33.1 per cent of NDA supporters surveyed want Rahul Gandhi to contest from Amethi.
On the other hand, 23.6 per cent of opposition supporters and 34.7 per cent of NDA voters opined that Gandhi should not fight the Lok Sabha elections next year from Amethi. A total of 28 per cent of people surveyed do not want the Congress MP to contest from Amethi. Around 28.8 per cent of respondents remained neutral on the question.
BJP has said that Rahul Gandhi will lose his deposit if he goes back to Amethi to fight general elections while Congress claimed that Smriti Irani is ‘scared’ of Gandh. The grand old party also said that Amethi is the default seat of Rahul Gandhi but Wayanad supported him in need, hinting that the former Congress president might contest from both seats.
[Disclaimer: Current survey findings and projections are based on CVoter personal interviews conducted among 4097 adults. Sometimes the table figures do not sum to 100 due to the effects of rounding. MoE is +/- 3% at macro level and +/- 5% at micro level.]
