Priyanka Gandhi, Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan to take oath as MPs in Lok Sabha today

Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan will take oath as Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

While Priyanka Gandhi won by a record margin from Wayanad, Chavan won the Nanded constituency in the recent Lok Sabha by-polls.

Rahul Gandhi had won from Rae Bareli and Wayanad, but he vacated his Wayanad seat from where his sibling Priyanka Gandhi Vadra won on Saturday.


Priyanka will finally entering the Lok Sabha after a resounding win from Wayanad with many a hope that she will re-energise her party and its dwindling electoral fortunes.

The 52-year-old, who joins her mother Sonia and brother Rahul as an MP in what is a rare instance of three members of a family together in Parliament, would visit Parliament as a teenager to listen to her father Rajiv Gandhi speak as prime minister. Four decades later, she joins as member herself -- her detractors crying nepo politics and her party supporters laying out the proverbial red carpet for a promise finally met.

With a winning margin of more than 4.1 lakh votes, she has surpassed the tally of her brother Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad in Kerala.

Priyanka's entry into Parliament comes at a difficult time for the party, which has been jolted by electoral defeats in Haryana and Maharashtra. It would be interesting to see if she is able give a much-needed fillip to the grand old party and help put it back on electoral track.

The Nanded bypoll was necessitated by the death of Congress MP Vasantrao Chavan on August 26.

Ravindra Chavan, who was seen losing to BJP's Santukrao Hambarde, finally won with a margin of 1,457 votes after the votes were recounted in Nanded.

(With agency inputs)