While the Congress has fielded its sitting MP and leader, Rahul Gandhi, from Wayanad, the CPI fielded its senior leader, Annie Raja. The Congress and the CPI are allies in the Opposition s INDIA bloc but rivals in Kerala
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP on Friday following he was held guilty and awarded two-year jail sentence by a Surat court in a 2019 defamation case over his “Modi surname” remarks. The court granted bail to Gandhi and allowed him to appeal to a higher court in a month.