Varun Gandhi makes maiden poll appearance for mother Maneka Gandhi fighting lone battle
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Varun Gandhi campaigns for mother Maneka Gandhi in Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, May 23: On the last day of campaigning for the Sultanpur Lok Sabha seat, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi made his maiden appearance in electioneering on Thursday. He sought the support of the people for his mother Maneka Gandhi.
Varun Gandhi addressed a public meeting in Sultanpur on Thursday. The polling for the Sultanpur parliamentary seat is slated for the sixth phase on May 25.
Maneka Gandhi had won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with a narrow margin of just 14,000 votes. Among the top BJP echelons of the leadership, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has addressed a public meeting in the Sultanpur parliamentary seat.
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“There are 543 Lok Sabha seats in the country. Elsewhere, the MPs are addressed as Sansad ji. This is the only seat in India where the MP is addressed as Mata ji (mother),” said Varun Gandhi in his speech.
Varun Gandhi has been a subject of intense speculation in the political circles after the BJP denied him a renomination from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat. The BJP fielded Jitin Prasada from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat.
Varun Gandhi has been missing from the electioneering after he was denied the ticket by the BJP. He stopped becoming a rebel even while his aide had reportedly procured nomination papers from Pilibhit.
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Lately, Varun Gandhi again hogged the limelight after the rumour mills went agog with speculations that he could be the surprise candidate of the Congress from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat against the Union Minister Smriti Irani. However, Varun Gandhi stayed away from electoral politics.
Maneka Gandhi canvassed in the constituency on the development plank. Unlike other BJP leaders, she did not seek votes in the name of the Ram Temple.
Speculations link Varun Gandhi with the likelihoods of his joining the Congress. However, the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi during his first Bharat Jodo Yatra had rejected the suggestions that the party could induct Varun Gandhi.
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Rahul Gandhi had rejected the speculations, saying that the past association of Varun Gandhi with an ideology makes unfit with the Congress. The BJP has also not given any role to Varun Gandhi within the organisation.
Varun Gandhi had been vocal in his newspaper columns against stated positions of the BJP on key issues and also of the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. He had been a vocal supporter of the demands of the farmers.
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