Tanvi Nalin writes for Youngisthan.in
Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra is seldom seen in the political circuits
although she has been a part of important Congress meetings and
deliberations. She is the ‘blue moon’ of Amethi and Raebareli, or rather
the seasonal frog, who croaks unnecessarily during rains.
The last time that we had seen Mrs Vadra was during assembly
elections in Uttar Pradesh. She campaigned vociferously for Congress in
the home seat of her brother Rahul Ganhi and mother Sonia Gandhi. The
Congress party uses her as the perpetual defendant who cajoles, commands
and invokes emotion among the people.
But the result was a disaster. So much for her ‘savior’ figure that
the Congress family tries to portray her as during elections, the
Samajwadi Party swept the Gandhi bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli in
central Uttar Pradesh, winning eight of the 10 Assembly seats in the
parliamentary constituencies.
The party is again pitted for the same kind of defeat. And yet again
it has launched Priyanka as the front-guard who can talk to the voters
as a daughter, a sister and as an Indian wife to defend the family and
its sins. It may be called dumbness of the Congress party in the era of
public awareness. But the worst part is that Priyanka too has started to
believe in this mythical portrayal of herself.
She has been quite ‘innocently’ telling people that her husband
Robert Vadra was ‘not even considered’ for any business proposal or
dealings in BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi’s ‘vibrant’
Gujarat. To top it all, she has been warning all the political opponents
to ‘leave her husband alone’ for he was ‘just a businessman’.
It was an opportunity that she threw herself to her opponents’ side
and who grabbed it quite gleefully with both hands. Now #DamaadGate is
in news all over and Priyanka is not able to defend her family anymore
with a single cogent argument. Playing a martyr is not always good as
she should learn from the new, and veiled, allies of Congress.
If fierceness of Manmohan Singh at a wrong time, appeal of Sonia
Gandhi for ‘secular’ votes seeking help from a person of dodgy secular
credentials, Rahul Gandhi’s utter non-sense jibberings at every rally
has been menacing for Congress, Priyanka’s poor defence has pushed the
party to the edge.
For the first time, Amethi is facing a real battle in electon where
BJP's Smriti Irani and AAP's Kumar Vishwas are against Rahul. But
Priyanka has ensured that Congress is at the point from where it will
fall to oblivion. And Vadra, well, let the Modi government come to the
centre.
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