Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is ready to challenge the elections of Lok Sabha de Wayanad du Kerala, the district he won for the first time in 2019. He filed his appointments on Wednesday April 3 after having held a Mega-Roadshow in the district, as well as with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Addressing the crowd, the former president of the Congress would have tried to strike a personal agreement with the residents of Wayanad. “When I arrived in Wayanad five years ago, I was new here, but you elected me like your deputy and soon you made me a family member. I received love and affection. I learned from my brothers and sisters so much. It was an honor for me to be the deputy of Wayanad. I do not treat you or do not think of you as an electorate, but I think of you in the same way as I think of my (little) sister Priyanka, “he said.
I received love and affection. I learned from my brothers and sisters so much.
It is an honor for me to be your deputy.
I treat you and I think you the same as I think of my little sister @priyankagandhi.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
: Shri … pic.twitter.com/09teqqub4f
– Congress (@incindia) April 3, 2024
While Gandhi won the siege of Wayanad Lok Sabha by a huge margin in the 2019 general elections, we will take a look here if the story will repeat itself or if it is ready for a difficult battle this time.
Wayanad: seat of Lok Sabha and beyond
The Hill de Wayanad district has green foliage and diverse fauna. He would have a forest cover of 36.48% in Kerala.
Wayanad has a varied terrain, ranging from 354 feet to a maximum of 7,350 feet above sea level, noted MoneyControl.
The district forests are part of a larger wooded area, including the Nagarhole tiger reserve, the Bandipur National Park and the Br Tiger reserve in Karnataka and the Mudumalai Tigers reserve and the Sathyamangalam forest at Tamil Nadu.
About The News Minute (TNM)The district of Wayanad Lok Sabha was sculpted in 2008 after a delimitation exercise. It consists of seven assembly segments: three in the district of Wayanad, three in the district of Malappuram and one in the district of Kozhikode.
The Wayanad district has 6.24 Lakh voters, while segments in the other two districts have a total of 8.05 lakh of voters, reported The week.
According to The QuintThe 2019 article, the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat has 44.85% of Muslims, 41.31% of Hindus and almost 13% Christians.
2019 Wayanad LS results
The congress has been triumphant in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat since 2009.
Mi Shanavas won the headquarters of the Grand Old Party during the Lok Sabha 2009 polls. He kept the constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, which guarantees it with a margin of 20,870 votes against the Satyan Makeri of the Communist Party (CPI).
The siege of Wayanad fell vacant after the death of Shanavas in 2018. In the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, Rahul Gandhi chose to challenge Wayanad in addition to the traditional bastion of the Amethi Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
However, his decision was criticized by the left at Kerala, notably the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The Gandhi Scion lost Amethi to the leader of the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) Party Smriti Irani. In Wayanad, he gained in a record difference of 4.31,770 votes, the highest margin by which any candidate had won an election in Kerala.
Gandhi won seven Lakh votes with a 64.7% voting share against PP Suneer of CPI, which obtained 274,597 ballots with a 25.1% vote.
The Unis Democratic Front (UDF) led by the Congress recorded a swept victory, winning 19 seats out of 20 Lok Sabha in Kerala.
Will Wayanad remain the “safe seat” of the congress?
Rahul Gandhi faces the CPI candidate Annie Raja de Wayanad this time. She also held a roadshow in the district before depositing her appointment on Wednesday.
The ICC is a partner of the left democratic front (LDF) in Kerala. While the IPC and the Congress are part of the opposition block in India, the two parties are bitter rivals in Kerala.
About WeeklyThe ICC had urged the Gandhi Scion not to fight from Wayanad last September. The party that exercises a leader like Raja was also considered a way to dissuade him from entering the district scrum. However, the congress again gave a ticket to Gandhi de Wayanad.
According to India today Sources, it was Rahul Gandhi’s choice to compete again from Wayanad instead of another southern seat. He did not want to give the impression that he “abandoned the voters who held him in a battle for political survival,” said the television channel.
Wayanad is my house and the inhabitants of Wayanad are my family. According to them, I have learned a lot in the past five years and I have received an abundance of love and affection. It is with great pride and humility that I put my appointment to Lok Sabha 2024 again from this… pic.twitter.com/rjgz0cytyb
– Rahul Gandhi (@rahulgandhi) April 3, 2024
Earlier this week, the Kerala CM Vijayan started in Gandhi for participating in the national leader in ICC, Raja. He said the Gandhi Scion challenges the LDF by fighting Kerala and asked why he was not fighting against the BJP “directly in the center”.
Besides Raja, Gandhi will face the head of the Kerala unit of the BJP, K Suendran de Wayanad. Raja and Surendran have targeted the head of the Congress for his absence of the constituency in the past five years.
“Wild elephants visited Wayanad more than Rahul Gandhi,” said Kerala BJP president after the announcement of his candidacy.
The human-animal conflict in the district has become a leading question in recent months, with an increase in the number of attacks of wild elephants.
Raja, a member of the National Executive of the ICC, who is ahead of Gandhi in the electoral campaign in the district, has also repeatedly raked the absence of the holder. Talk to The week, She said that the voters of Wayanad asked the same question.
“They ask,” Will you be here after the elections? ” Do you want to come and see us? I ask why they asked this question and they answer: “The elephants visited Wayanad several times; Our deputy, not even half as often. ”
Surendran, who said he will put a difficult fight against his rivals, called Gandhi and Raja as “tourists in Wayanad”, Weekly reported.
The head of the congress had visited Wayanad in February after the death of two men in attacks by distinct elephants. He had visited the families of the victims, promising their “full support”.
While the national problems will dominate the polls, the conflict of the growing man-animal in Wayanad could be a hot button subject.
Talk to WeeklyThe award -winning documentary director and political observer Ok Johnny, said that candidates cannot ignore questions such as animal attacks that have an impact on the “right to life” of a large number of electorate.
A lack of medical infrastructure is another key problem in Hill’s district where patients are often taken to the Kozhikode adjacent district. According to Deccan Herald (DH)The Citizenship (Amendment) (CAA) Act could also play a role in the segments dominated by Muslims of the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.
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Gandhi, whose vision of Wayanad includes various development plans, is cut off from the most urgent problems in the district linked to livelihoods and basic infrastructure in the region.
Some residents of Wayanad have expressed their dismay at the absence of Gandhi in the past five years. Although they put hope on Raja’s candidacy, they do not believe that SURENDRAN DU BJP, which will place its appointment on Thursday, would make a lot of difference, DH reported.
So, will it not be smooth for him this time?
Experts say that if Gandhi is likely to win Wayanad again, his margin could drop. “The last time, an important part of the population on the left and liberal voted for Rahul Gandhi, considering him as a national leader and the face of the National Front against the BJP,” said Johnny The week.
“But now, with Annie Raja’s entry, Rahul Gandhi’s support in these sectors could decrease. She is ready to obtain more votes than any previous left candidate because of his stature and his ability to connect with people. In fact, if it was not Rahul Gandhi who disputed, she could have made the race in Wayanad even tightened, “he added.
About India todayGandhi faces “no threat” in Wayanad digitally, however, he can “win with a smaller margin”.
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