The Congress' brahmastra...Rahul Gandhi campaigned in UP and the party just about managed to hold onto its nine percent voteshare. So is there really a Rahul Gandhi factor or is it just hype around the young MP ??? After all...winning the Amethi seat is no big deal for the Gandhi family...so is RG...as he is called will be able to revive the Congress or is he finished...especially after the UP results ???
Any outsider will tell you that RG went to 130 assembly seats and tried hard to connect with the youth promising them a bright future. All the talk about kande se kandhe mila kar chaloonga just died at the hustings !!! But the fact is...people did come out to see him...listen to him and shake hands with him...then what went wrong...why did the Congress just manage 22 seats ???
Thats a question which the party is still groping with...but that seems to be the last thing on RG's mind. Not only did he congratulate Maya on her win but also spoke in Parliament about buliding the party organisation. Maybe RG was trying to shift the blame on the party organisation...but then isnt he also a part of the party and organisation ??? So was he actually running away from the truth ??? My take is that he was subtly taking the responsibility for the poor show.
Reports coming in also tell us that RG is meeting almost all the Congress candidates who polled over ten thousand votes...and has asked all MLA's to give him a monthly report about the status of Maya govt and feedback on their areas in general. Does this mean that Rahul is still interested in UP ??? RG may have failed to convert the votes this time...but he anyways wasnt expecting any miracle to happen. In all his statements, he talked about UP not being a one election job, but a long term haul.
So this time around...you may see a Rahul Gandhi quietly doing his job. Giving the youngsters a chance to grow and making an honest effort to revive the party in a state where caste rules the roost. His controversial statements apart, it may be too early to write off Rahul...as he also knows that if he is to keep the family legacy going...then the keys to his future lie in UP.
Its a battle for his survival...to not just take on the likes of Mulayam if he is to woo the minorities back to the Congress...but also to negate the Maya factor who is subverting the Congress formula...and it may just be a matter of time before Maya draws her sword against him...as for Rahul...miles to go before he sleeps.
Any outsider will tell you that RG went to 130 assembly seats and tried hard to connect with the youth promising them a bright future. All the talk about kande se kandhe mila kar chaloonga just died at the hustings !!! But the fact is...people did come out to see him...listen to him and shake hands with him...then what went wrong...why did the Congress just manage 22 seats ???
Thats a question which the party is still groping with...but that seems to be the last thing on RG's mind. Not only did he congratulate Maya on her win but also spoke in Parliament about buliding the party organisation. Maybe RG was trying to shift the blame on the party organisation...but then isnt he also a part of the party and organisation ??? So was he actually running away from the truth ??? My take is that he was subtly taking the responsibility for the poor show.
Reports coming in also tell us that RG is meeting almost all the Congress candidates who polled over ten thousand votes...and has asked all MLA's to give him a monthly report about the status of Maya govt and feedback on their areas in general. Does this mean that Rahul is still interested in UP ??? RG may have failed to convert the votes this time...but he anyways wasnt expecting any miracle to happen. In all his statements, he talked about UP not being a one election job, but a long term haul.
So this time around...you may see a Rahul Gandhi quietly doing his job. Giving the youngsters a chance to grow and making an honest effort to revive the party in a state where caste rules the roost. His controversial statements apart, it may be too early to write off Rahul...as he also knows that if he is to keep the family legacy going...then the keys to his future lie in UP.
Its a battle for his survival...to not just take on the likes of Mulayam if he is to woo the minorities back to the Congress...but also to negate the Maya factor who is subverting the Congress formula...and it may just be a matter of time before Maya draws her sword against him...as for Rahul...miles to go before he sleeps.
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Sanjeev Bhai,
I think the mandate from UP which comes out could be considered as one of the finest example of 'mature franchise' Just how many people on Earth predicted Mayawati's majority!!! including the the X prepoll, Y prepoll and Z prepoll however this does'nt mean that people wanted Mayawati to be in power it's almost same when i guess 8 yrs back at a nagar nigam election in Gorakhpur, people choose an eunch to be da mayor not because they liked, but because they hd no option left!! as for Rahul Gandhi He did'nt became an option at any point in time. Sir, I have got my tremendous doubts that in future he's gonna be..I mean just How could he untill He realise that this state wants <'performer'> and not <'pretender'>??? ofcourse he visits amethi on a regular basis!!
thats good for him but The fate of Mr. Rahul Gandhi would depend largely on his Performing abilities
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