Rahul asks MPs to gear up for LS polls
21 March 2013 8:14 AM IST
Asking party MPs from Uttar Pradesh to gear up for the next Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday expressed confidence that Congress would be able to double the number of seats it had won in 2009 general elections in the state.
Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi in UP had won 22 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in last Lok Sabha elections. It was a major achievement for the party, which had won only 22 seats in 2007 Assembly elections. One Lok Sabha seat is considered equivalent to five Assembly seats.
In 2012 Assembly elections, the party, however, could win only 28 seats.
Sources said that Gandhi asked party MPs from the state to ‘be confident and positive’. He expressed confidence that ‘we will win more than double number of seats of what we had got in the last Lok Sabha elections’, the sources said. Gandhi is learnt to have said that while the party will be able to repeat its victory in the seats already held, new seats will be added to the party’s kitty.
Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi in UP had won 22 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in last Lok Sabha elections. It was a major achievement for the party, which had won only 22 seats in 2007 Assembly elections. One Lok Sabha seat is considered equivalent to five Assembly seats.
In 2012 Assembly elections, the party, however, could win only 28 seats.
Sources said that Gandhi asked party MPs from the state to ‘be confident and positive’. He expressed confidence that ‘we will win more than double number of seats of what we had got in the last Lok Sabha elections’, the sources said. Gandhi is learnt to have said that while the party will be able to repeat its victory in the seats already held, new seats will be added to the party’s kitty.
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