Latest News | Priority is to Take Raebareli's History to New Heights: BJP Candidate Dinesh Singh
Get latest articles and stories on Latest News at LatestLY. The BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh Thursday said the hard work by him and party workers over the past months would bring down the Gandhi bastion.
Raebareli (UP), May 2 (PTI) The BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh Thursday said the hard work by him and party workers over the past months would bring down the Gandhi bastion.
The Member of Legislative Council in Uttar Pradesh spoke to PTI Videos shortly after being nominated as the party candidate for the seat, represented by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi since 2004.
Singh, who joined the BJP in 2018 and contested against Sonia Gandhi in 2019, indicated that he and party workers in Raebareli have prepared for the contest over the last six months.
The hard work put in by them would "bring down any bastion", he said.
Singh said that the region had produced several seers, and claimed that the "fake Gandhis" had buried the grand history of the region and "put their name" on it.
His priority, Singh said, was to take Raebareli's history to "new heights".
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated him after the BJP's announcement.
Considered a Gandhi family bastion, Rae Bareli became an important seat after sitting MP Sonia Gandhi vacated it to contest the Raj Sabha polls earlier this year. The Congress has lost the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat only thrice so far.
The Rae Bareli constituency has previously been represented by Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
Singh also alleged that the Gandhi family never fulfilled the necessities of the people of the Raebareli and that he has always stood with the people here in their need.
Singh is currently a minister of state (independent in charge) in the Uttar Pradesh government.
The Congress party is yet to declare its candidate for the seat.
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