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UP tussle: Amethi, Rae Bareli seats reach Priyanka Gandhi's doorstep

Priyanka may speak to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav over the issue

Priyanka Gandhi, UP polls, Assembly elections 2017, Congress
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Amit Agnihotri New Delhi
After playing a key role in clinching the Samajwadi Party-Congress pre-poll pact in UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has another difficult task at hand.

According to sources, the tussle over the 10 assembly seats falling under Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies, considered to be Nehru-Gandhi family bastions, has reached the doorstep of Priyanka who may speak to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav over the issue.

Congress strategists are miffed that the SP has left only four of the 10 seats for the Congress, which wants to contest all 10 as it does not want to cede space to the SP in

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