NEW DELHI: The Congress (I) parliamentary board meeting here. Tuesday will formally request former premier Rajiv Gandhi’s widow Sonia Gandhi to contest the by-election from the Amethi parliamentary constituency.
Party spokesman C.P. Thakur told reporters here Monday that it was now entirely for Sonia Gandhi to take a decision, “The CPB can only request hero contest the by- election from amethi, he said.
The election committee of the ‘Uttar Pradesh: Congress (I) has already unanimously recommended her name as the party candidate for Amethi these at held by her slain husband, Rajiv Gandhi. The parliamentary board Of the U.P. Congress (I) has also. Suggested Sonia Gandhi’s name for the seat.
Elections to the Amethi constituency in the northern Uttar Pradesh state were held during the first phase of elections on May 20, a day before Gandhi was assassinated.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 11, 1991
