I honestly do not know whether Amethi would ever recall Rahul Gandhi or not. The call may not be about Rahul Gandhi or Smriti Irani at the candidate level.
Let me give the example of Delhi, where people find BJP to be good for the national election, but not at all suitable for the state election even though Modi himself did extensive rallies.
Under the Modi wave, a lot of hardcore criminals have been elected under BJP ticket because people looked at Modi’s face or leadership. Individual candidates’ credibility was not the criteria. The BJP has 116 MPs or 39% of its winning candidates with criminal cases. 43% of newly-elected 2019 Lok Sabha MPs have criminal records. In the new Lok Sabha, nearly 29% of the cases are related to rape, murder, attempt to murder, or crime against women.
So if candidates with rape and murder charges could be elected as MP and be made a minister, if 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th pass candidate can become MP as well as minister, then there is no question why people can not elect Rahul Gandhi as MP from Amethi. Whether Rahul has done any specific development in Amethi or not is also not the yardstick. If that be the yardstick then so many people should never be re-elected. The most prominent face would be Modi - who instead of developing the nation has crushed the economy, destroyed employment, selling everything, not being able to control price rise, not being able to ensure border security, not being able to secure life of people in the capital city of Delhi, not being able to save peoples’ life during Covid. But Modi Ji has been elected with an overwhelming majority. Has Rahul performed worse than Modi for Amethi? Has Rahul destroyed the economy or the employment of Amethi?
However, in spite of all his failures of the size of Himalaya, Modi is still a hero whereas Rahul practically without any failure for the nation is termed a “Pappu”. His only fault or failure is that he couldn’t make his party win in the election. But Rahul has definitely has not made any damage to the nation. has he sold any public property? If we consider failure as the measuring stick for naming someone Pappu, then I believe there is no greater “Pappu” in the nation than Modi Ji.
I am not justifying Rahul. Rahul should have taken care of his constituency in such a manner that come what may nobody would dislodge him from Amethi. However, I do not think that Smriti Irani is also an ideal candidate, though it is possible that BJP must have used its money muscle to take over Amethi.
But fact remains that Rahul is not so bad, that the people of Amethi will be hell-bound to defeat Rahul. In fact, apart from his so-called“Pappu” image built by BJP, there is nothing against Rahul, absolutely no allegation against him. The “Pappu” image of Rahul is a huge conspiracy and artificially hyped-up creation - this is a kind of character assassination.
I feel people have been harsh on Rahul beyond the justified limit and practically for no reason. If Rahul has made statements or comments which doesn’t justify the image of the leader of a party like Congress, then Modi’s record is not so good. His comments about using a digital camera, e-mail way back in 1988, the cloud comments, and a huge number of U-turns and lies also do not suit his image.
However, fact remains that false propaganda is at times more successful than the plain simple fact. Rahul lives a much simple life than that of Modi Ji. But Modi Ji gets re-elected. Rahul is Pappu and Modi Ji is a superman in spite of all his failures and lies. Modi Ji should keep on winning elections, but Rahul should never win an election.
Amethi will call Rahul only when they realize the reality and decide to change the regime.
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