'They see you now...': Priyanka Gandhi's heartfelt note for Rahul Gandhi after Lok Sabha results

Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi

A day after the announcement of Lok Sabha polls result, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi penned a heartfelt note for her brother Rahul Gandhi. Rahul, on June 4, won from both the seats he contested on in the Lok Sabha polls -- Wayanad and family stronghold Rae Bareli.

Heaping praise on Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka said that despite the "overwhelming propaganda of lies" being spread against him, he never backed down.

"You kept standing, no matter what they said and did to you... you never backed down whatever the odds, never stopped believing however much they doubted your conviction, you never stopped fighting for the truth despite the overwhelming propaganda of lies they spread, and you never allowed anger and hatred to overcome you, even when they gifted it to you every day," said Priyanka in a post on X.

"You fought with love, truth and kindness in your heart. Those who could not see you, see you now, but some of us have always seen and known you to be the bravest of all," she said, adding that she was proud to be his sister.

Gandhi won the Wayanad seat by a margin of more than 3.6 lakh votes and Rae Bareli by a margin of over 3.9 lakh votes. The Congress party also improved its tally from the 2019 general election, winning on over 99 seats as compared to 52 it won earlier.

Five years ago, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi won the Rae Bareli seat by a margin of 1,67,178 votes against Dinesh Pratap Singh.

Sonia Gandhi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli continuously since 2004, vacated the seat earlier this year and got elected to the Rajya Sabha.

Rae Bareli was the only Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh that the Congress won in 2019.

Rahul Gandhi represented the Amethi seat in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2019. In the 2019 general election, he lost the seat to the BJP's Smriti Irani but was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kerala's Wayanad.