"Couldn't Care Less": Smriti Irani On Congress's Amethi Candidate

"The (Congress) leadership is aware that this is a losing seat for them because if they were so confident of their victory, they would have announced their candidate by now," Smriti Irani said

Union minister Smriti Irani, who unseated Congress's Rahul Gandhi from his family turf Amethi in 2019, scoffed at the Congress delay in naming its candidate from the constituency.

"I think the Congress has clearly its role cut out for itself in Amethi. The leadership is aware that this is a losing seat for them because if they were so confident of their victory, they would have announced their candidate by now," she told NDTV in an exclusive interview.

Asked whom she would prefer between Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ms Irani said, "Couldn't care less. Whoever comes will be defeated surely, because both these entities have been absentee politicians from the area. One has been an MP, missing for 15 years. I have worked for five years, two years of which were corona," she said.