She has begun her campaign on a confident note hitting out at Rahul Gandhi with "those who can't develop their constituency shouldn't speak about development of the country".
The Gandhi bastion of Amethi saw another high-profile nomination on Wednesday. After Rahul Gandhi and Kumar Vishwas, it was the turn of BJP candidate Smriti Irani to file her nomination papers.
BJP appears on the verge of fielding 'Tulsi' Smriti Irani against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, a move that seeks to give a profile to the contest hitherto seen as one-sided in favour of the Congress heir imminent.
As BJP's Smriti Irani, who fought Lok Sabha polls from Amethi seat, took oath as cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government today, jubiliant party activists and her other supporters here held celebrations and congratulated each other.
The battle of ballots touched a new low on Wednesday with the Congress and BJP camps at daggers drawn on the Gandhi turf of Amethi.
: Both the youngest and the oldest members of the Narendra Modi Cabinet happen to be women, Smriti Irani and Najma Heptullah.
The BJP will bring a strict law against female feticide if it is voted to power, the party's national vice-president Smriti Irani said in Agra on Monday.
Discussions are underway in the BJP on fielding firebrand leader Uma Bharti or MP Smriti Irani against Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the impending Lok Sabha elections.
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