Its first member of parliament ( MP ) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of INC , who was reelected in 1971 . In the 1977 election , Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party became its MP . Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC . He died in a plane crash later that year , and a 1981 by-election was won by his brother , Rajiv Gandhi . Gandhi represented the constituency until 1991 , when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) . The by-election held that year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC , who was reelected in 1996 . Sanjay Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election . The widow of Rajiv Gandhi , Sonia Gandhi , then represented the constituency from 1999 to 2004 . She was succeeded by her son Rahul Gandhi . Amethi has thus been represented by four members of the Nehru – Gandhi family . However , this safe congress bastion was breached by Smriti Irani of BJP in 2019 general elections
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Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency)