Taking to X Congress shared, "Smriti Irani and BJP workers are badly scared in Amethi. Foreseeing the defeat, BJP goons armed with sticks and rods reached outside the Congress office in Amethi and vandalised vehicles parked there. There has been a deadly attack on Congress workers and the people of Amethi. Many people are badly injured in this attack. During the incident, vehicles of local people were also damaged."
Vehicles outside Congress office in Gauriganj, Amethi were vandalised. Kishori Lal Sharma criticized the act, highlighting it s against Amethi s culture. Avinash Pandey condemned it, while Anoop Kumar Singh mentioned police action. Party workers protested against the incident.
KL Sharma to News18: "I am no paratrooper. I have given the most productive years of my life to Amethi.Rajiv Gandhi ne mujhe dedh block ka in-charge banaya tha.Then I got one state Assembly seat, then three, then one Parliament seat and so on. I'm sure that I will defeat Smriti Irani."
Four decades of affiliation, from Rajiv Gandhi to Satish Sharma to Sonia Gandhi to Rahul Gandhi, and the resultant trust, is what made the Gandhis pick "Kishoriji" above any relative or loyalist as the standard bearer in the place identified with them.
Rahul s switch from Amethi to Rae Bareli and Kishori Lal Sharma s elevation from a constituency manager to candidate, all at the last moment, marked the culmination of cogitation in Congress that made aligning available options with political objectives a Herculean task.