One Take | Will A ‘Stubborn’ Rahul Gandhi End ‘United’ Opposition’s 2024 Dream? Miffed Sena, TMC Raise Alarm

Many years in the past in 2006, whereas the media waited for Rahul Gandhi to provide a sound chew, Priyanka Vadra walked into the Munshiganj visitor home in Amethi the place they have been staying. The media requested Priyanka Vadra to ask Rahul Gandhi to return out. She tried however in the end mentioned: “My brother is quite stubborn. He does what he wants to do.”

It was this cussed streak that made Rahul Gandhi tear up the ordinance that his personal authorities was bringing in on the disqualification of convicts. Because he was satisfied he was proper. This could not have been politically right and had upset UPA’s all-weather ally RJD however Rahul Gandhi wouldn’t budge.

The Congress says that is Rahul Gandhi’s dedication to ideas. But many within the Opposition time period this as being careless and callous — the most recent two being the Shiv Sena and TMC.

The Sena has by no means been comfy with assaults on Veer Savarkar by Rahul Gandhi and the Congress. Each time the Congress calls Savarkar a British agent, the Sena cringes as Savarkar is core to their political pondering. It additionally offers an opportunity to the BJP to take potshots on the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Sena for aligning with a celebration that insults Savarkar.

The end result has been that Thackeray’s Sena, which is an ally in Maharashtra, is miffed and has conveyed so to each Sharad Pawar and Congress. They refused to be part of opposition protests even though MP Priyanka Chaturvedi got here wearing black as a mark of protest. She skipped not simply the protests but in addition the late-evening assembly referred to as at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.

In truth, at this assembly, Pawar instructed Congress that Rahul Gandhi’s feedback weren’t in good style. Sonia Gandhi, dashing to her son’s defence, mentioned feedback on Savarkar have been ideological. However, Rahul Gandhi determined to again down and mentioned he can be extra cautious sooner or later. The end result? Congress has determined to try to chorus from making uncharitable feedback on Savarkar with Rahul Gandhi deleting a few of his tweets.

From the Trinamool Congress, assist got here on a situation — No extra feedback from Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Mamata Banerjee and no private assaults on the West Bengal chief minister. Banerjee has by no means been proud of the Congress-Left alliance however has accepted it. However, with Rahul Gandhi accusing her of scams and serving to the BJP through the Meghalaya marketing campaign, Banerjee misplaced her cool and Abhishek Banerjee hit again.

Despite the blow sizzling, blow chilly relationships, each Sena and TMC — and extra importantly Rahul Gandhi — have accepted that the bigger aim is to defeat the BJP and for this, just a little pulling again and silence is sensible.

Sonia Gandhi had completed this in 2004 when she gulped her delight and bitterness to just accept the DMK as an ally regardless of having blamed them earlier for not fast-tracking the investigation into Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. However, she knew that to defeat the BJP, profitable the south can be essential. The identical was her equation with RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan. Rahul Gandhi, who faces a deep downturn along with his social gathering slipping, should study that actual politics means overpowering his cussed streak. For the sake of ousting the BJP.

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