Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi constituency with his entire family looking on. His mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and brother-in-law Robert Vadra were with him in the Collectorate when he filed his papers.

The three-term MP will take on Union minister and BJP candidate Smriti Irani in what is seen as a direct contest with the SP-BSP-RLD alliance taking the decision to not file any candidate from the constituency, seen as a Congress bastion.