Union Minister Smriti Irani addressed the Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh State Women Convention in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala where she took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and said that it was she who sent him to Wayanad from Uttar Pradesh. Irani managed to bag the Amethi seat, known as a Gandhi bastion, in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections where she defeated Rahul Gandhi by securing 4, 68, 514 votes while Rahul Gandhi only got 4, 13, 394 votes.