Gandhi will also fight from Kerala's Wayanad amid speculation that Congress is worried about Amethi. BJP says this gives it another weapon to target him.
The Congress president is likely to spend most of his time on the campaign trail outside UP, except for a rally or roadshow in his constituency, Amethi.
PM Modi, who will be in Amethi to lay the foundation stone of an ordinance factory, will be visiting Congress president Rahul Gandhi's constituency for the first time since 2014.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Never mind spin masters like Surjewala and the Gandhis themselves, this move, particularly the dilly dallying after the kite flying hint a week ago, clearly points to one thing ONLY: that, Congress, and their scion, are REALLY SCARED now of a NEGATIVE Amethi outcome. Perhaps, even certain. Amethi voters will be told that immediately after winning both, he will vacate it for Priyanka. That is NOT going to happen. He will lose Amethi, AND, could very well lose Wayanad too, if Pinarayi and Karat are true to their words. GOOD for the country, though. (Is that why Priyanka’s name is already being floated for Varanasi? So that she may also choose some other “SAFE SEAT” at the last minute). “Yeh paintre bahut purane ho chuke hain”, (to quote Vinod Khanna from Amar Akbar Anthony).
This is analogous to PM contesting from Vadodara as well. 2. If the Congress is not confident of Amethi, that gives a sense of its strength in Uttar Pradesh. Makes its current trajectory of Ekla Cholbo Re even less credible. In the process, it is being a little unfair to Ms Priyanka Gandhi as well. 3. On a lighter note, it may now be the turn of God’s Own Country to give India its next Prime Minister.
Amethi and Raebareli were neglected by the congress for decades. Modi has changed the minds of the suffering public under the congress neglect and made them realise that there is an alternative available to them for their betterment. That Rahul fears that Amethi is not safe is shameful for him. Finding an alternative in waynad, Kerala tantamount to a suicide for Rahul. If he loses in Amethi which may happen in 2019 it proves that congress is winding up. Before that National Herald case is also catching up and Kapil Sibal was frantically trying to delay the final hearing and succeeded getting the case posted to 23rd April. Rahul for now survives the ignominy of losing nomination due to an imminent conviction. End game for Rahul before a checkmate.
Never mind spin masters like Surjewala and the Gandhis themselves, this move, particularly the dilly dallying after the kite flying hint a week ago, clearly points to one thing ONLY: that, Congress, and their scion, are REALLY SCARED now of a NEGATIVE Amethi outcome. Perhaps, even certain. Amethi voters will be told that immediately after winning both, he will vacate it for Priyanka. That is NOT going to happen. He will lose Amethi, AND, could very well lose Wayanad too, if Pinarayi and Karat are true to their words. GOOD for the country, though. (Is that why Priyanka’s name is already being floated for Varanasi? So that she may also choose some other “SAFE SEAT” at the last minute). “Yeh paintre bahut purane ho chuke hain”, (to quote Vinod Khanna from Amar Akbar Anthony).
This is analogous to PM contesting from Vadodara as well. 2. If the Congress is not confident of Amethi, that gives a sense of its strength in Uttar Pradesh. Makes its current trajectory of Ekla Cholbo Re even less credible. In the process, it is being a little unfair to Ms Priyanka Gandhi as well. 3. On a lighter note, it may now be the turn of God’s Own Country to give India its next Prime Minister.
Amethi and Raebareli were neglected by the congress for decades. Modi has changed the minds of the suffering public under the congress neglect and made them realise that there is an alternative available to them for their betterment. That Rahul fears that Amethi is not safe is shameful for him. Finding an alternative in waynad, Kerala tantamount to a suicide for Rahul. If he loses in Amethi which may happen in 2019 it proves that congress is winding up. Before that National Herald case is also catching up and Kapil Sibal was frantically trying to delay the final hearing and succeeded getting the case posted to 23rd April. Rahul for now survives the ignominy of losing nomination due to an imminent conviction. End game for Rahul before a checkmate.