The CPIM mouthpiece editorial titled 'Congress Collapse to be Completed with this Pappu Strike' asserted that the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar was afraid of a defeat in Amethi.
Rahul Gandhi was on the hunt for a a safe seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections after Smriti Irani laid siege to the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar bastion of Amethi. Towards that end, he chose Wayanad in Kerala as his preferred second seat.
Rajdeep Sardesai, the "journalist" who had once said that the Parliament attack back in 2000 actually "excited him" took to Twitter to shamelessly twist PM Narendra Modi's statement.
One of Congress support in Wayanad emanates from IUML which in turn is tied up with Jammat-e-Islami and SDPI, both accused by NIA in conducting arms training camps across the state under the pretence of health awareness camps.
In a midnight operation, Income Tax (IT) department officials along with the Election Commission officials carried out a raid on the premises of senior leader Duraimurugan of the DMK, the Congress party ally in Tamil Nadu.
Rahul Gandhi has contested from Amethi since 2004 and has always won comfortably. He never faced any stiff competition in Amethi except in 2014 from BJP’s Smriti Irani.