Rahul in Rae Bareli, Gandhis Abandon Amethi? | Lok Sabha Elections 2024 | English News | News18

In all honesty with Tehseen Poonawalla who was here yesterday on this show and he said a big surprise. We Gandhis don’t quit, he said we don’t flee. Both will be there, Jayaram Ramesh said. Both will be there. We never quit. One is disappeared, one is disappeared viewers and the other one doesn’t have the gumption To get back Amethi from someone he claimed is a flash in the pan. So, Tehseen Punal, I just want to ask you, your own ideologically inclined friend Sanjay Jha has written a whole article today saying what a pity, what a lost opportunity, what a lost chance. So I’m asking you, Sir, does Rahul Gandhi doesn’t even have the conviction to take on Smriti Irani and defeat her in Uttar Pradesh? And he’s talking about how badly the BJP is doing and how there is public resentment, there’s anti incumbency. Modi is corrupt, Modi is useless. And you can’t even defeat one of their generals in a straight contest that doesn’t behoove. I think you’re on mute the scene. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Rahul, for having me on the show. Yeah, let me just make two points. First of all, fabulous strategy by the Congress. We knew this was happening. We just had to keep it for the last minute completely check meeting the the BJP. That’s why yesterday we came out with a check the chess video because we knew that we’re going to checkmate the BJP. Now here’s what we’ve done. I have told you repeatedly, the present member of Parliament from Amethi is losing. She’s going to lose by a minimum 50,000 votes against anybody. Against KL Sharma, Jiba vote 1,25,000 votes. So Amethi was secured. The question was Rai Bareli because Mrs. Gandhi had gone to Rajya Sabha. So Rahul Ji actually Amethi would have been an easier victory for him. But he is now going to Rai Bali and taken on the tougher fight. And the fact of the matter is he’s proved to the people of this country that Rahul Ji can fight for both South of India and not of India. Why can’t the honourable Prime Minister considers the himself as the biggest leader in the country and he is go South of India and fight. Rahul Ji is fighting from two places South of India and not of India. The Prime Minister cannot go South of India and that itself proves that today Rahul Gandhi Ji is the pan India leader and Prime Minister Modi does not have confidence to go South of South of India. Now viewers OK this requires some. I don’t know, I can’t even. I’m a bit flabbergasted here. I’m being told viewers and you’re all being told that Smriti Irani is going to lose. What a better opportunity. OK what a better opportunity for Rahul Gandhi to come back and say look at me, I’m a true blue blood. I’m a true inheritor of the iron ladies iron will Indira Gandhi. And when I lose, I come right back and I take back and guess what? He’s done. He goes up against, he goes up against somebody. Yeah, of course. GVL Nasima Rao. I mean, I will just. I’m just, no, no. One second, let let GVL Nasima Rao coming. He’s a BJP national spokesperson. And there’s Doctor Ramanathan also. Yes, I think I’m really impressed that Tehsin has not run away from a debate as Rahul Gandhi chose to run away from Amethi and he’s out rather than being covered with embarrassment. Tehsin is trying to really put up a brave face here. The fact that Rahul Gandhi chose not to contest from Amethi. Everybody in this country, except possibly Tehsin alone, has understood that he’s scared to fight Smriti Irani. He has a Prime Minister in his prediction even weeks or months before election, said even the top leaders of the Congress party would run away and that prediction has come true. Your own prediction, they seen that he would stand in Amethi has has come a cropper. The Congress party has actually exhibited cowardice and they are trying to claim that this is a sacrifice. What sort of a sacrifice is it? We have been. We have gone to his pocket borough, a seat which he has been contesting from 20 years. We went there, we defeated him in his own bastion and after five years also he doesn’t gather the courage to even fight and and the only reason why he has come to Rai Bareli Rahul is he’s scared of losing Wayanad and he certainly needs an alternate a seat for him to contest and he possibly found Rai Bareli to be the safest. But we will certainly give him run for his money in Rai Bareli as well. Let me just read out one paragraph from what Sanjay Jha who the BJP gets very upset by because on a daily basis viewers he makes personal attacks against the Prime Minister and mocks the Prime ministers capacities. This is what he writes. Rai Rahul Gandhi from Rai Bareli Priyanka no show. No show. How Congress lost its UP stronghold. He’s being charitable. I think they’ve lost this election. The next 5 phases viewers but nonetheless he says Smriti Irani now has bragging rights. Rahul copped out of a contest. Copped means viewers. Its a slang word to say that you just fell off the map, ducked it. This is what she will repeat ad nauseam. If the Gandhi siblings have jumped in together, it would have provided a huge force multiplier for the India bloc. This all these big talk viewers about Priyanka Gandhi, Vadra checkmating Mr. Modi and nailing him to the cross and being able to turn the narrative on its head. What better way to prove than by saying that I’m loved by the people and what I say is endorsed by the people. I’m coming amidst you. I am from Rybarani or even from Amethi. I don’t care but I’m here. Now its me, my message versus Smriti Iranis message or the BJP candidate His message from library. Let’s test viewers. A democracy has one very important jury and that is the public. And in the court of public opinion, this matter would have been decided once and for all. At least. Arvind Kejriwal viewers in 2014, had the gumption to go up against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. At least, he said, OK Modi, I’m coming. He might have lost, but he gave it all. Rahul Gandhi copped out in not my words, but Sanjay Jha’s words.