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As Rahul Gandhi prepares to contest the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat for the first time, the Congress is building his campaign around the Nehru-Gandhi family’s 100-year connection to its pocket borough while conveying to voters that he will remain by their side — an attempt to counter the BJP’s accusation that the party disappears from the seat every time after coming to power.
When the Congress declared Kishori Lal Sharma’s candidature from Amethi Lok Sabha seat, it came as a surprise to many since for the past four decades he has been a “backroom boy” for managing elections for the Gandhi family in their pocket borough of Amethi and Rae Bareli. While campaigning in Amethi, Sharma, 63, speaks about his new role, political background, and what went wrong in the 2019 polls when Rahul Gandhi lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani.
SAM PITRODA is back with yet another embarrassing self-goal for the Congress, the second of this election period. As the BJP – right from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to its Chief Ministers in the Northeast – seized on his remarks and attacked the Congress, the leadership of the grand old party could just squirm and watch with dismay.
While the ruling BJP replaced senior party leader and sitting MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh with his youngest son Karan Bhushan Singh, 33, as its candidate for the Lok Sabha polls from the Kaiserganj seat neighbouring Ayodhya in east Uttar Pradesh, Karan is fighting his debut election in his father’s name.
For the first time, the Congress is contesting in less than 400 Lok Sabha seats in a parliamentary election. It is contesting 328 seats, 93 lower than the number it contested in 2019. Coalition imperatives are one key reason: the party has given away as many as 101 seats it contested in 2019 to its INDIA bloc partners this time.
By the end of polling on Tuesday, covering 93 constituencies across 11 states and UTs, more than half of the country’s total seats would have wrapped up polling. Fears of “change in the Constitution” and “reservation quotas” remained the main theme in this phase, whose seats were swept by the BJP in the 2019 polls. The twin issues also dominated the coverage of the Urdu dailies over the week, which also captured the suspense and drama surrounding the declaration of Congress candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, which went down to the wire.
With Andhra Pradesh heading for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in one phase on May 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two rallies in the state on Monday, along with the NDA alliance partners – TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief Pawan Kalyan.
The suspense is over — it is Rahul Gandhi, not Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is contesting from Rae Bareli, the seat their mother Sonia Gandhi represented five times since 2004 until she entered Rajya Sabha a month ago. And it is party karyakarta Kishori Lal Sharma who will face BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi.