Amethi: Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani will file her nomination papers from the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are likely to accompany her.
According to Durgesh Tripathi, the district chairperson of the BJP, Irani was to file her nomination on April 17, but due to a holiday on that day (Mahaveer Jayanti), she changed the date.
Amethi figures in the fifth phase of the seven-phased general elections, and voting there will be held on May 6.
Irani faces a poll battle with Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who had filed his nomination papers on Wednesday.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi had defeated Smriti Irani.
the schedule for the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections was announced.
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