New Delhi : Union minister Smriti Irani will take on Rahul Gandhi in Amethi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will pull out all stops to wrest the seat from him.
Irani cannot be trifled with, as the 2014 election result showed. Rahul won by over three lakh votes in 2009, when Irani wasn’t his rival.
Everything changed in 2014, when she polled over three lakh votes to slash Rahul’s winning margin to just over a lakh votes.
Although Amethi’s voters are loyal to the Gandhi family for over three and a half decades but the BJP now holds four out of the five Assembly seats that are part of this Lok Sabha constituency.
Rahul losing Amethi will be a disaster not just for him but also for the future of the Congress and its allies who, in reality, are not many, given that the party has failed to seal seat-sharing pacts with its friends. If the Congress chief fails to make it to the 17th Lok Sabha and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance retains power, Rahul’s humiliation will be complete.
Today, Ten News had a fireside chat with Congress workers from Amethi regarding their opinion for ‘Rahul Gandhi as Next PM’.
They mentioned how Rahul Gandhi use publicize humanity towards farmers. He keeps his words unlike Modi who is habitual of making fake promises.
When asked by Ten News regarding BJP’s expected number of states, one of a worker said, “BJP will be acquiring lesser states compared to previous elections and according to the current situation, Rahul Gandhi can absolutely become our next PM as his efforts have always been remarkable.”
