NEW DELHI: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh , the seat she has held for the past two decades, Congress sources said on Tuesday.

“The party had never, in the first place, said she had retired. There is no doubt that she will contest from Rae Bareli,” a source said dismissing speculation in some circles of her possible retirement from electoral politics.

Speculations had been fuelled after her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s launch into politics as AICC general secretary in charge of UP (East). Even though Priyanka had indicated that she was disinclined to contest the Lok Sabha polls just yet, her arrival in Uttar Pradesh had led to speculations that she could fill in for Sonia. Sonia’s last public rally was in Hyderabad in November during the Assembly polls in Telangana.

