Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Rajasthan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this, it will be Gandhi\u2019s first term in the Rajya Sabha after serving five terms as a Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Rae Bareli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports, the former Congress chief will be accompanied by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to Jaipur for filling her nomination papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gandhi, first elected in 1999 as a Lok Sabha MP from Rae Bareli, will not contest the next general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In April, a total of 56 members of Rajya Sabha from 15 states, will be retiring. As per the official notice, the election to the seats will be held on February 27 and the last date for filing nominations is February 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Congress party is in a comfortable position to secure one of the three Rajya Sabha seats from Rajasthan, which will be up for election. The seat will become vacant once the current holder, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, completes his six-year tenure in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s worth noting that this will be the second time a member of the Gandhi family enters Rajya Sabha, after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who served in the Upper House from August 1964 to February 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Congress party has not yet declared its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. In 2019, Gandhi announced that it would be her last Lok Sabha election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a lot of speculation that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sonia Gandhi’s daughter, may contest from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency, as Gandhi has opted out this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This decision by Gandhi to contest from Rajasthan instead of a southern state like Telangana or Karnataka, where the Congress party is also in a good position to win, is seen as a signal that the Congress’ first family is not abandoning the Hindi heartland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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