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Journalism of Courage
Priyanka, Radhika, Sarika
RAE BARELI: Call it daughter power. Three celebrity candidates in this district have three gutsy women seeking votes for them. The most celebrated one, of course, is Priyanka Vadra, who is spearheading her mother Sonia Gandhi8217;s campaign for the Amethi seat. She is right now touring Tiloi and Salon R Assembly segments and taking the constituency by storm. However, there are two more daughters slogging away here 8212; Sarika Sharma, speaking up for father and Congress Rae Bareli candidate Captain Satish Sharma; and Radhika Nehru, daughter of ex-Congressman and now BJP nominee for the same seat, Arun Nehru.
LUCKNOW: In the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, there are as many as 10 candidates who will score a hat-trick if they win again and there are 27 who have already achieved this distinction. The candidates striving for a hat-trick include six belonging to the BJP, three to the Samajwadi Party and one Independent.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former prime minister Chandra Shekhar are among those who have already won their respective seats thrice or more in succession. Shila Gautam is the only woman candidate in the state who has achieved the distinction of recording three victories in a row.
Those who havewon the seats twice in succession and are in the fray for the third time include Union Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi Allahabad, Union Welfare Minister and BJP-supported Independent Maneka Gandhi Pilibhit and former Union ministers Salim Sherwani Badaun and Beni Prasad Verma Kaiserganj.
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