Irani versus Rahul: BJP says after Amethi Rahul now ‘cheating’ Wayanad

Irani versus Rahul: BJP says after Amethi Rahul now ‘cheating’ Wayanad
Chandigarh: In Wayanad to support BJP candidate K Surendran , Union Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday spent a sizable portion of her time addressing media persons berating sitting MP Rahul Gandhi. She also claimed that after “cheating” the people of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh he was now doing the same in Kerala.

Irani said she had come to Wayanad from an area (read Amethi) where the Gandhi family ruled for 50 years and called the people from their “family”. “They (Rahul Gandhi and Congress) are now calling the people of Wayanad their family. They cheated the people of Amethi in the name of family and now they are aiming to do the same in Wayanad,” Irani told the media persons

The fact is even after serving a humiliating defeat for Gandhi in Amethi, a “family’s pocket borough” in 2019, BJP and Irani kept up the pressure on him in the last five years, taking him on wherever and whenever possible.

Observers say the main aim of sending Irani to Wayanad is “really quite simple” to remind people in Wayanad that Gandhi is “defeatable” and send a message to Congress and supporters that this time the constituency will not be a cakewalk for them.

“BJP is trying to make Gandhi’s fight tougher in what is otherwise considered a ‘safe seat’ for Congress because of its demography,” they add.

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