New Delhi, March 22 -- Smriti Irani will once again come face-to-face with Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency for the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP announced as it released its first list of candidates. This will be Irani's second attempt to wrest the seat from Congress. In 2014, she lost the seat by a margin of over one lakh votes to Rahul Gandhi.
However, the loss apparently had failed to dampen the spirit of the BJP leader who in the last four years has targeted the Congress president for his "failures" in Amethi on several occasions. Earlier this month, Irani had accused the Congress president of not speaking up for the people of Amethi in Lok Sabha. "For the last five years, he has only uttered foul lang...