Amethi like a family, will win from here: Rahul

April 12, 2014 14:58

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who filed his nominations from the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, said that Amethi is like his family and exuded confidence that he will again win from here.

The Nehru Gandhi scion has won from Amethi in 2004 and 2009 general elections with huge margins. This time around he is facing AAP's Kumar Vishwas and BJP's Smriti Irani.

After filing his moninatiosn, Rahul said, "I did not get personal against Narendra Modi; only pointed out a fact that he had not mentioned wife's name in affidavit.'

"Opinion polls will be proved wrong like in 2004 and 2009,' he added.

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