Union minister Smriti Irani recalled the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and her fight to win the Amethi seat against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying contesting in Amethi was “a rebellion against a system that did not work”. The BJP MP also attacked on Saturday. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who were in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi today, said their ‘yatra’ for the upcoming UP elections is not going anywhere.
Responding to a question from News18 during the launch of his new book, he said, “Today brothers and sisters were in Amethi. He had to bring the people of Lucknow and Sant Kabir Nagar and Chhattisgarh. Someone had to burn too much fuel. The fact that you were in one constituency for 50 years and had to evacuate 50 people from Lucknow to Amethi tells a lot about his relationship with him and my constituency. That trip isn’t going anywhere.”
She said that in 2014 when she was directed to go to Amethi, she had requested her superiors to call her family and seek permission as the decision would affect not only me but all the people who love me. “I knew it was throwing itself up to be eaten. I knew it was opening itself up to criticism, but there was so much goodwill for that one family in Lutyens’ Delhi that I would be shattered. When I When I went to Amethi, I had only 22 days to contest and BJP never got more than 30,000 votes. And in 21 days we got 3 lakh votes. That means 2.7 lakh people were waiting for someone to come. showed up and it is for them that I stopped,” said Irani.
A turning point came for her in Jagdishpur’s Amethi when she was on her way back one evening and four men surrounded her and her driver and two party workers, he said. “They were trying to give me some very wise advice. When Sanjay Singh and Ravindra Pratap Singh fought from here they were fired upon and when Maneka Gandhi fought from here their clothes were torn. They Said ‘Aap bhi bullet hai’. I told him ‘Mujhpe goli chalenge, Modi ki 400 seat aayegi’. I sat back in the car and called my family and said I might get shot but I don’t see any hospital here. Imagine my family sitting with friends and planning a route to take me back if I got shot,” Irani said.
“This is my reality of fighting Amethi. For me it was a fight for 2.7 lakh people who were waiting for someone to come. It was a rebellion against a system that did not work. I just became the facilitator, I just became the weapon,” said Irani.
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