Revanth hints at Rahul contesting from Wayanad
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy seemed to drop a hint that Rahul Gandhi might contest again from Wayanad. Inaugurating the public rally marking the conclusion of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) political outreach programme, ‘Samaragni’, Mr. Reddy said: “Mr. Gandhi is fighting a toothandclaw battle against the BJP to save the country from fascism. In Kerala, he need not worry about his constituency. That frees him to
Congress Leaders, including Revanth Reddy and Sachin Pilot, marking the end of the ‘Samaragni’ rally.
focus on spearheading the nationallevel battle against the BJP.”
Mr. Reddy also launched a noholdsbarred attack
against the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and BJP, setting the template for Congress’s campaign in the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala.
Mr. Reddy drew an equivalency between the LDF government and the Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi. “Both are inherently corrupt like the BJP,” Mr. Reddy said.
Mr. Reddy said he was a “workerfriendly and not a leaderfriendly leader”. He added that Congress workers in Kerala recurrently braved a vindictive CPI(M) that used murder and violence to crush dissent. “The key to Congress victory lies in the hands of such committed workers”, he added.
Congress leader Sachin
Pilot chose not to attack the CPI(M), an INDIA bloc ally, directly. Instead, he said secular parties should sink their differences to counter the BJP’s almost existential threat to the country’s polity. “It is not an election to ascend to power. It is an existential battle to rid India of fascism,” Mr. Pilot said.
He said the Sangh Parivar leaders received sizeable retainers from the colonial masters when Congress workers took bullets for the country’s freedom. “The BJP and RSS have no stake in the country’s constitution”, he said.