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Paradoxically, Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra ended the same day as the Election Commission announced the Lok Sabha polls for 2024, though the Yatra’s final rally is to take place in Mumbai on Sunday at the historic Shivaji Park.
Among the most unexpected entrants in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha nominees was Bansuri Swaraj, the 40-year-old daughter of Sushma Swaraj, for whom the late BJP leader was known to leave meetings at times, to rush to be at the bus stop when she came back from school.
The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion and not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past. The BJP is out to get every seat it can but this time, its defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh and a Samajwadi Party (SP) nominee in Uttar Pradesh are being viewed as attempts to demoralise an already downhearted Opposition on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls.
It runs like a mesmerising film reel.
By conferring Bharat Ratna first on Karpoori Thakur and L K Advani, and now on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Choudhary Charan Singh, and agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, it is evident that Narendra Modi will present a mantra including Mandal, Mandir, Market and Mandi (farmers) in the Big Battle of 2024 – taking a leaf out of the book of many a leader before him, but giving it a Modi touch.
A picture, it is said, is worth a million words. The picture of children in Manipur flanking a smiling Rahul Gandhi at the outset of his Yatra-2 conveyed what his words could not.
“Finally they have taken a stand”. That was the pleased reaction of many to the Congress leadership’s decision to not attend the inauguration of the Ram Temple on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event, the Congress said, had been politicised by the BJP and RSS for electoral gains.