Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday to face the toughest electoral battle in his family pocket borough 
Amethi.
A two-time MP from Amethi, Rahul is challenged by BJP’s crowd-puller, actor Smriti Irani, and the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) poet-turned-politician Kumar Vishwas.
Amethi goes to the polls on May 7.
Gandhi was accompanied by Congress president Sonia Gandhi for a roadshow prior to filing his nomination papers.
Rahul had earlier joined the Congress president when she filed her nomination papers from Rae Bareli on April 2.
The constituency, known as an impregnable fortress of the Nehru-Gandhi family, was earlier represented by country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and later by Sanjay Gandhi once and four times by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Sonia Gandhi also represented the seat but later shifted to Rae Bareily to vacate the seat for Rahul.
