In the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha Election, BJP politician Smriti Irani emerged as a giant-killer by defeating Congress president Rahul Gandhi in his home turf Amethi. A two-member Congress Committee that was probing the reasons behind the defeat of their President Rahul Gandhi in his family borough Amethi, has been told that the non-cooperation of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party units was responsible for the defeat.

Congress Secretaries Zubair Khan and K.L. Sharma, who are UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's representatives in Rae Bareli, were informed in "clear terms" that the SP and BSP units in Amethi did not cooperate with Congress and a large segment of their voters went with BJP.