Delhi November 28, 2024 (Punjab Khabarnama Bureau)- Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s electoral debut will set in motion from Thursday, November 28, with her oath-taking as a member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha scheduled to take place along with that of party leader Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan.
With Priyanka Gandhi’s victory, for the first time in decades, all three members of the Nehru-Gandhi family—Sonia, Rahul, and Priyanka—are now in Parliament.
Priyanka Gandhi won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 4,10,931 votes in the recently concluded round of bypolls, which took place alongside Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024.
The Wayanad Lok Sabha seat was vacated by Priyanka Gandhi’s brother, Rahul Gandhi, who had won from there in the Lok Sabha elections this year but had also secured the family bastion Rae Bareli constituency. Rahul Gandhi’s decision to resign from the Wayanad seat and retain the Rae Bareli constituency after winning the two seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April necessitated the Wayanad bypoll.
Wayanad, a Congress stronghold, witnessed a triangular contest among Priyanka Gandhi, BJP’s Navya Haridas, and Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Sathyan Mokeri.
Priyanka Gandhi’s electoral debut
Priyanka Gandhi contested the Wayanad seat as a candidate of the United Democratic Front (UDF).