Rahul Gandhi In Raebareli, Priyanka In Wayanad: Decoding Congress' Move | Read
The Congress decision to have Rahul Gandhi retain Raebareli and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contest from the seat he is vacating, Kerala's Wayanad, is seen as one of the party's better planned strategic moves. It is expected to give it a firm foothold in both north and south -- necessary groundwork for future elections.
Raebareli is one of the two Gandhi family bastions in Uttar Pradesh, represented for long by Rahul Gandhi's mother Sonia Gandhi. With the other bastion, Amethi, won back from the BJP by longtime Gandhi family loyalist KL Sharma, it gives back the Congress its firm base that once made it the undisputed choice of Uttar Pradesh.
