Sonia Gandhi to file nomination for Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan on Wednesday

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Sonia Gandhi to file nomination for Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan on Wednesday



NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will file on Wednesday her nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan, party sources said.It will be the 77-year-old leader’s first term in the Upper House after serving five terms as a Lok Sabha MP.Congress sources said party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi’s son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are likely to accompany her to Jaipur for filing her papers.Gandhi, who represented Rae Bareli in Lok Sabha, will not contest the next general elections. She has been a five-term Lok Sabha MP and was first elected in 1999 after taking over as the Congress president.



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