If Rahul agrees to contest from a southern state he will be the third member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to do so. His grandmother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, had successfully contested twice from South India - once from Medak in Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana) and then from Karnataka's Chikmaglur. Rahul's mother, Sonia Gandhi, too had won a Lok Sabha election from Karnataka's Bellary. However, the family has always chosen to vacate the seat it wins from the southern states, preferring to retain their constituency in UP in the Lok Sabha.