Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi
Voting for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat by-election in Kerala will be held on November 13. After being elected from Wayanad and Rai Bareilly seats in the Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi resigned from Wayanad seat and now his sister Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi has Take office. While Satyan Mokeri from the CPI is trying his luck with Priyanka, Navya Haridas from the BJP is also trying her luck. The seat may be considered safe for the Congress, but so is the Left and the BJP. In such a situation, all eyes are on whether Priyanka Gandhi can break Rahul Gandhi’s record of winning in Wayanad?
Sensing the political atmosphere in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi contested with Amethi for the Uttar Pradesh seat and the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. Rahul Gandhi lost the election to Amity and the BJP’s Smriti Irani, while he managed to defeat Wayanad. Similarly, Rahul Gandhi is contesting elections from both Wayanad and Rae Bareli seats in 2024. This time Rahul Gandhi won in both the seats but later he made Rae Bareli his workplace and left Wayanad seat after which Priyanka (Priyanka) got into the seat.
Rahul’s wins in Wayanad in 2019 and 2024
In the 2019 Wayanad elections, Rahul Gandhi secured 65% of the votes and won by 4 lakh 31 thousand votes. A total of 10,87,783 votes were cast in Wayanad seat, of which Rahul Gandhi got 706,367 votes. PP Suneer of CPI got 274,597 votes and Tushar Valapalli of BDGS got 78,816 votes. Thus, Rahul Gandhi won by 4,31,770 votes.
Meanwhile, in 2024, Rahul Gandhi received 60% of the votes, with a victory margin of 306,400 votes. In 2024, 10,846,53 voters exercised their franchise from the Wayanad seat. Rahul Gandhi polled 647,445 votes, Communist Party of India (CPI) Annie Raja polled 283,023 votes and BJP state president K Surendran polled 141,045 votes. Rahul Gandhi managed to win 364,422 votes.
The BJP ranks third in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, but Rahul Gandhi’s margin of victory in 2024 is smaller than in 2019. Rahul Gandhi’s vote count dropped by 5.25% from last time, and his winning percentage also dropped by 6%. However, in the political history of Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, the record of winning the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat with the highest number of votes is definitely Rahul Gandhi’s name.
Can Priyanka break Rahul’s winning record?
Priyanka Gandhi stepped up to carry forward Rahul Gandhi’s legacy in Wayanad. Priyanka Gandhi has been camping in Wayanad since her nomination. In a bid to encourage Congress leaders and workers, party general secretary KC Venugopal claimed that Priyanka Gandhi will win with a record number of votes. Going by the Wayanad equation, this seat may be considered a no-brainer for Priyanka Gandhi, but the question is, can Priyanka Gandhi break Rahul Gandhi’s victory record?
Priyanka Gandhi has been active in politics for the past two decades, but she made her first foray into electoral politics during the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election. Priyanka Gandhi’s candidacy is seen as a new chapter in Congress politics. By fielding Priyanka Gandhi from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, the Gandhi family has killed many birds with one stone. On the one hand, it is a strategy to establish a political balance between South India and North India. On the other hand, it is also considered to be a move by the Gandhi family to strengthen political control of the Congress Party.
The Congress hopes that the positive impact of Priyanka Gandhi’s entry from Wayanad will be felt in the Kerala elections. The Congress hopes that Priyanka will also help in the assembly election campaign as a Member of Parliament from Kerala. Apart from this, the Congress party also wants to maintain its control over South Indian politics and Priyanka Gandhi is trying to achieve a major victory in Wayanad.
“Will prove to be a better MP”
From the Kerala Congress to Priyanka’s team, they are all busy setting the political chessboard for nomination and record-breaking victory. After Priyanka arrived in Kerala after Rahul, the state Congress workers were enthusiastic and Priyanka personally directed their conversion into votes. The aim is for Priyanka Gandhi to win in Wayanad with a margin of over 5 lakh votes.
Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a public meeting in Wayanad in support of Priyanka Gandhi, had said that his sister will prove to be a better MP than him. In this way, Rahul tried to create a political atmosphere for Priyanka by contesting in Wayanad, but Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate Satyam Mokri said that if the Congress leader wins the seat, he will It is difficult to see her in Wayanad. In this way, by creating a local versus outsider problem, the Left wants to win the political battle in Wayanad.
Who is competing with Priyanka Gandhi?
Talking about her son’s time in boarding school, Priyanka Gandhi said that she used to visit her son at school so often that the principal finally asked her to see him less often. So if someone said I’m not coming to Wayanad, then you know, like the principal, he would say enough is enough. Go to Delhi and spend a few days. Not just this, Priyanka Gandhi also wrote the script for victory in Wayanad by raising local issues.
Priyanka Gandhi’s team members are camping in Wayanad and are going door-to-door along with the Kerala Congress leaders to win every vote. All Congress leaders, big and small, have set up camp in Wayanad to work at the grassroots level. While the Left Party, the BJP and the Congress are vying for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, the main contest is believed to be between Priyanka Gandhi and the Left Party’s Satyam Mokri. Tribal voters in Wayanad are definitely backing the BJP, but is the Congress worried that if the BJP votes go to the Left, it will be difficult for Priyanka Gandhi to break her brother Rahul’s victory record?
