Gandhi
charisma fading? Congress humbled in Rae Bareli, Amethi
Tuesday March 06, 2012 06:16:44 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The charisma
of the younger Gandhis didn't seem to have worked, even in the
family pocketboroughs in Uttar Pradesh. In a major setback, the
Congress has lost all the seats in Rae Bareli, represented in the
Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi.
Four of the seats in Rae Bareli were bagged by the Samajwadi Party
while the fifth went to the Peace Party, the Election Commission
sources said.
In the five-seat Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, represented by
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the Congress is leading
in three seats and the SP in two.
Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra had promised her mother a
perfect 10 in the two constituencies.
"I promise Ma that we will get her all the 10 seats of Rae Bareli
and Amethi," Vadra said while addressing a rally on Valentine's
Day Feb 14.
The setback in the family fiefs has come as a big shock to the
party, which was banking on the 41-year-old Rahul Gandhi to set
the stage for revival of the party in Uttar Pradesh.
In both Amethi and Rae Bareli not just Rahul but Priyanka also
held rallies and unleashed their charm offensive. Despite her ill
health, Sonia Gandhi found time to campaign in these family seats,
but it looks like the Gandhi charisma didn't quite charm the
people of the constituencies.
"There may be many reasons. We will do our analysis," said Law
Minister Salman Khurshid, a former president of the Uttar Pradesh
Congress Committee, when asked to comment on the Congress setbacks
in Amethi and Rae Bareli. Khurshid's wife Louis Khurshid lost from
the Farukkhabad assembly seat.
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