Lucknow: Commenting on the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's humiliating defeat in the Amethi Lok Sabha seat which considered a strong stronghold of the Gandhi-Nehru family, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Raj Babbar has said that Rahul treated Amethi as his family, but the same family members Gave the verdict. But both of them are sorry.

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Raj Babbar, in a media briefing on Monday, Babbar said, "One thing, which I am 100 per cent sure is the fact that despite becoming an MP (from Wayanad), there will be pain in the heart of Rahul ji and also among the people of Amethi... that a person who considered Amethi as his family and gave an identity to Amethi, we did not allow a person from our family to emerge (victorious)"

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Raj Babbar said Rahul Gandhi's heart is in pain, he is clearly looking, but there is anguish in the heart of the people of Amethi. "Expressing surprise at the Congress ' most shocking defeat in Uttar Pradesh in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Raj Babbar has said that the party may have failed to take advantage of the hard work of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.