Will the challenge increase for BJP or will the path become easier?
With the restoration of Rahul Gandhi’s membership of Parliament and clearing the way for him to contest elections in 2024, the challenge of the ruling NDA, especially the BJP, is going to increase. Now Rahul Gandhi is going to return to the Parliament with tougher attitude than before. Rahul Gandhi is undoubtedly the most influential leader of the opposition in the present era and the most vocal voice against the Narendra Modi-led central government. From social media to the road, he has been besieging the Modi government. After ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, his image of a mature and fighting leader has emerged. From this it can be said that the challenge of BJP will increase. However, there is another side to this as well. Now BJP can also succeed in making the 2024 election a direct fight of ‘Modi vs Rahul’. The history of direct fight of ‘Modi vs Rahul’ has been in favor of BJP. Congress’s track record of defeat in successive state assembly elections in 2014 and thereafter goes against Rahul Gandhi. After the defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he was forced to resign from the post of Congress President. The BJP will leave no stone unturned to make the 2024 election a ‘Modi vs Rahul’ fight as it suits it the most. Many BJP supporters even call Rahul Gandhi the ‘BJP’s biggest star campaigner’. Leave aside BJP supporters, West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee, an important ally of INDIA, the opposition alliance formed under the patronage of Congress, has also called Rahul Gandhi as ‘TRP’ for PM Modi. TRP is a measure of popularity of TV channels. On March 19 this year, Mamta Banerjee had told a virtual meeting of TMC workers in Murshidabad that the BJP wanted Rahul Gandhi to remain the face of the opposition as he was a ‘TRP’ for Modi.
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The decision of the Supreme Court has come at a time when barely 8-9 months are left for the next Lok Sabha elections. This big relief given to Rahul Gandhi from the Supreme Court before the Lok Sabha elections is going to encourage the Congress. After the conviction of Rahul Gandhi by the Surat court in a defamation case related to his remark on ‘Modi surname’ and subsequent cancellation of his membership of Parliament, the condition of the Congress had become like an army whose commanders did not want to participate in the war. Being able to take With the return of the commander, it is bound to raise the morale of the army. With hard work in the last 2-3 years, Rahul Gandhi has succeeded to a great extent in demolishing the image of ‘reluctant politician’ and ‘immature’ politician that his opponents have created. ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is its biggest proof. Rahul is directly addressing the general public. Be it a truck driver or a vegetable seller, a bike mechanic or a street vendor… he is trying to connect directly with the general public. Congress is upbeat after the Supreme Court’s decision. is celebrating Their commander who has returned just before the election season.
WHAT MESSAGE TO ALLIES OF THE OPPOSITION ALLIANCE INDIA
After the relief given to Rahul Gandhi from the Supreme Court, the challenge of some allies of the opposition alliance INDIA is also going to increase. Looking beyond the electoral scenario of Rahul Gandhi, the desire of the Prime Minister’s post of many allies of the opposition alliance was rising. She was trying to put pressure on the Congress that if Rahul Gandhi could not contest the election, then the leader of any other party should be fielded as the PM face. Many allies of INDIA like TMC, Aam Aadmi Party, JDU were seeing the image of their respective leaders in the ‘face of the post of Prime Minister’ from the opposition side. But after the decision of the Supreme Court, the circumstances have changed. Now the desire of these leaders can turn into ‘Mungeri Lal’s beautiful dream’. INDIA’s largest constituent Congress was speaking very cautiously about the claim for the post of Prime Minister since the beginning of the coalition exercise, but now it can be aggressive, calling its claim on it natural. Due to this, a situation of Rar can arise within INDIA itself.
Mamta Banerjee gets more blow than BJP!
TMC Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s ambition for the post of PM is not hidden from anyone. TMC was seeing Rahul Gandhi’s disappearance from the scene as an opportunity for itself. That’s why after the INDIA meeting in Bengaluru last month on 18th July, when Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that Congress is not interested in power or Prime Minister’s post, then TMC did not take any time to present Mamta Banerjee’s claim. When TMC MP Shatabdi Rai was asked about Kharge’s statement, he told Tapak that then we would like Mamata Banerjee to become the face of the Prime Minister’s post from the opposition. Rai said that if the Congress is not in the race for the post of PM, then it would like its leader to reach the post of PM from the CM of the state. Mamta Banerjee has publicly ridiculed Rahul Gandhi. She has repeatedly indicated that she does not accept Rahul Gandhi’s leadership. She has been projecting herself as the biggest face of the opposition against Narendra Modi till the INDIA alliance was formed. Now with the return of Rahul Gandhi, his challenge has definitely increased.
Waiting for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra!
The demand for a central role within the Congress for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been gaining momentum after Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a criminal defamation case stripped him of his membership of Parliament. Since Rahul could not contest the elections, the speculation about Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting the Lok Sabha elections had intensified. There was also a demand within the Congress that Priyanka should be made the face against Narendra Modi. However, even if the Congress wanted to do so, its hands were tied due to coalition compulsions. But political pundits were assuming that if the equation of INDIA coalition coming to power in 2024 emerges, Congress would have put forward Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the post of Prime Minister in the absence of Rahul Gandhi. But after the decision of the Supreme Court, the Congress will no longer need any ‘Plan B’.