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Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday formally invited Congress President Rahul Gandhi to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the state. The letter was sent three days after Gundu Rao made a similar request on the social media and posted it on Twitter. In his tweet earlier, Rao had urged Gandhi to consider contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Karnataka. The state had the honour of sending former Prime Minister Indira Gandhiji and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhiji to the Lok Sabha in the past,” it said. Sonia Gandhi, one year into politics, had won from Bellary in Karnataka against BJP leader Sushma Swaraj in 1999..