Congress has a plan. The plan is to take on the Trinamool Congress, which is not only hunting down its leaders but also leaving no opportunity to criticize and criticize it. For example, just as Rahul Gandhi backed opposition parties over the suspension of 12 MPs from Parliament, TMC’s Derek O’Brien tweeted to take a dig at Congress for claiming credit for bringing opposition parties together. Did.
Yet unlike top TMC leaders, who left no chance to attack the Gandhi family, the Congress has largely been mutually reticent. And here’s the reason, and the plan.
This is to harness ‘nari power’. It came as a surprise when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra came to Goa and interacted with women ahead of the state elections. But this was no off-the-cuff tour. This is part of a well-planned plan to counter another woman, Mamata Banerjee, who is showing no reluctance to spread her wings until she takes a hunt from her ‘good friend’ Sharad Pawar. Churchill Alemao, the lone NCP MLA in Goa, recently joined the TMC.
The Congress is aware that with a poor electoral record it cannot engage in a verbal duel with the TMC. It is also known that Mamata’s nephew and Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee says that the Congress is weak.
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But the Congress hopes that it will put forth its most aggressive face in front of Mamata Banerjee. Sources say that there are plans to use Priyanka in all the areas where Mamata Banerjee sets foot. Not just Goa, but in Tripura, Haryana, Meghalaya, Assam and other states where TMC shows interest, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be ousted. Interestingly, after Priyanka’s ‘women manifesto’ in UP, a scheme has been made for the women of Goa. It is clear that she is being positioned as someone who will fight for women empowerment in the country. With Congress hoping that women voters will emerge as the deciding factor in the election, Priyanka can be a powerful weapon. In 2004, it was a woman, Sonia Gandhi, who propelled the Congress to power.
It is also a fact that Mamata Banerjee uses her female quotient to advance her case. In the April–May Bengal elections, an animation film depicting Manata as a lone woman competing against men gained traction and resonated with female voters. The Congress hopes that Priyanka’s fierce pro-women image will act as an X factor in her party’s favour. It is no surprise that posters, short films etc. are being prepared to portray her as Durga fighting evils like Hathras and Lakhimpur.
But a top TMC source rubbished the Priyanka factor. “It is a democratic country. Anyone can campaign anywhere. It is not an issue.
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Significantly, in private, Mamata Banerjee has often said that Priyanka, not her brother Rahul Gandhi, is a better politician who can fight the BJP. And now the Congress is using one woman to counter another, which in many ways is becoming the party’s biggest challenger.
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