Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra has expressed his want to contest Lok Sabha elections, ideally from Amethi, to offer a combat to Union Minister Smriti Irani. In an unique interview to India TV correspondent Dinesh Mourya on Wednesday, Robert Vadra mentioned: “It is not my desire, but it is the desire of many people that I should join active politics. Since I belong to the Gandhi family, I find it difficult to stay away from active politics. Demands have come from many places, firstly from my home town Moradabad, where people want me to represent them, but I have done much social work in Amethi, Jagdishpur, Rae Bareli and Sultanpur since 1999, and I also get requests from Telangana to represent them, when I visit the South. People have already started putting up posters. At political conclaves and events, I am often told that I have already delayed my entry into politics.”
To a pointed query on whether or not he is able to give a tricky combat to Smriti Irani in Amethi, Vadra replied: “ I am ready to give a fight to anybody. I am a member of the Gandhi family. With great power, comes great responsibility. I have learnt a lot from the family during the last 25-30 years. Whenever allegations were levelled against me, I replied to them in my own manner. I know the nitty-gritty of campaigning. Whether it is the BJP or any other close rival, I will put in my best to defeat them.”
On a query whether or not Priyanka Gandhi is able to contest from Rae Bareli, Vadra replied: “She is ready to contest from anywhere, but the Congress party will have to decide.” He, nevertheless, mentioned he would love Priyanka to enter Parliament first. Vadra has mentioned that he has communicated his want to his mother-in-law Sonia Gandhi and brother-in-law Rahul Gandhi, and the household will take a name quickly about Amethi and Rae Bareli. Rahul Gandhi is but to determine whether or not he wish to contest from Amethi, from the place he was defeated in 2019 by Smriti Irani by a margin of 55,120 votes.
This shouldn’t be the primary time Robert Vadra has expressed his want to contest elections. He had communicated his want to the household a number of occasions, and likewise in public. This time, he seems to be critical. Vadra is aware of that Rahul could not contest from Amethi this time as a result of his ego won’t enable him to strive his luck once more after his 2019 defeat. Rae Bareli’s seat is mendacity vacant as a result of Sonia Gandhi won’t contest on account of well being causes. Probably, Vadra felt that with two household seats going vacant, and given his want to affix politics, if Priyanka opts to contest from Rae Bareli, he needs to be allowed to strive his luck from Amethi. This is the rationale why he made his intentions public. But the issue is, that Robert Vadra doesn’t have an enormous say within the Gandhi household to the extent that he can be given a ticket if he needs so. This is a matter by which, being the son-in-law alone won’t assist. Sonia, Priyanka and Rahul should collectively determine.
RAHUL GANDHI IN WAYANAD
On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi was busy submitting his nomination in Wayanad, Kerala, after taking out an enormous highway present along with his sister Priyanka. The inexperienced Indian Union Muslim League flags, resembling Pakistani’s nationwide flag, had been lacking this time, not like in 2019, when BJP made a difficulty out of it. This time tricolour flags and caps had been seen. Left Democratic Front candidate and CPI chief Annie Raja additionally filed her nomination on Wednesday, whereas on Thursday, Kerala state BJP chief Okay Rajendran, accompanied by Union Minister Smriti Irani filed his nomination.
This time, the competition in Wayanad goes to be a triangular one. In his speech, Rahul Gandhi, with out straight mentioning LDF, mentioned there are various native issues in Wayanad which haven’t been resolved as a result of the LDF authorities within the state didn’t hearken to his recommendation. CPI rival Annie Raja additionally took out a rally and alleged that Rahul Gandhi was an “outsider”. She mentioned, rumours had been circulated final time that Rahul was going to grow to be Prime Minister because the Congress would win the elections, however the folks of Wayanad have now realized that they’ve been cheated. Annie Raja is the spouse of CPI normal secretary D Raja and he or she goes to offer Rahul a tricky combat this time.
In 2019, Rahul had defeated his CPI rival by an enormous margin of over 4 lakh votes. On Thursday, Union Minister Smriti Irani, whereas addressing a rally in Wayanad in assist of the BJP candidate, alleged that Rahul had cheated the folks of Amethi and was now doing the identical to the folks of Wayanad. “In Amethi, four lakh families got toilets for the first time after Modi became PM, despite the fact that Congress had been winning Amethi seat for 50 years”, Irani mentioned. In the 2019 elections, Rahul Gandhi acquired 65 per cent votes in Wayanad. He polled 7,06,367 votes out of a complete of 10,92,197 votes. The CPI candidate P P Suneer polled 2,74,597 votes. Congress leaders declare that Rahul would win simply this time once more, however one ought to hearken to what Annie Raja is saying, which is attention-grabbing. She is asking why Rahul Gandhi didn’t point out the identify Wayanad even as soon as over the last 5 years in Parliament. She is saying, Rahul can not converse to the voters of Wayanad with out an interpreter as a result of he doesn’t know Malayalam.
Things have modified loads in Kerala since 2019. BJP made an enormous difficulty of RSS employees being brutally killed. RSS-BJP community is now lively in every district of Kerala. Prime Minister Modi goes to deal with election conferences in Kerala, the place polling is due on April 26. This time, Rahul shouldn’t be going to have a straightforward walkover. However, Congress can rely on the assist of Muslims, who represent greater than 50 per cent in Wayanad. SDPI, the political wing of the banned PFI, has prolonged assist to Rahul Gandhi. BJP is making a difficulty of it and Smriti Irani has already began saying this in her conferences.
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