Lok Sabha Election 2024: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday struck an emotional chord while addressing an election rally in Amethi, the seat that sent him to the Lok Sabha for three consecutive terms before electing Smriti Irani in the 2019 general elections. While speaking at the rally, Rahul said that he continues to "belong" to Amethi even though he is not contesting the seat this time. The Congress has fielded KL Sharma from Amethi for the ongoing Lok Sabha election. He is pitted against Amethis sitting BJP MP and union minister Smriti Irani, among other candidates. KL Sharma has the hopes of the Congress as well as the INDIA blocs hopes pinned on him. At Fridays rally, jointly held by Rahul and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, the Wayanad MP said, "I came here for the first time 42 years ago with my father. Whatever I have learned about politics, it has been taught to me by the Amethi public. At that time, there were no roads and no development. And I have witnessed the relationship of love between the people here and my father." Rahuls father and late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi represented Amethi in the Lok Sabha for 10 years in a row until his assassination in 1991. Speaking further, Rahul said, "So, you do not think that I am contesting from Rae Bareli... I was, am and will belong to the Amethi." Rahul has been fielded by the Congress from Wayanad and Raebareli for the ongoing parliamentary polls. While Rahul is the incumbent Lok Sabha representative of Wayanad, his mother, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, is the outgoing MP from Raebareli. Sonia Gandhi has been the Lok Sabha MP from Raebareli since 2004. However, she took the Rajya Sabha route to the Parliament earlier this year. Both Amethi and Raebareli are slated to go to the polls in the fifth phase on May 20. (With inputs from ANI)