The Amethi conundrum https://prempanicker.substack.com/p/the-amethi-conundrum PREM PANICKER MAY 04, 2024 Now,RG gets to focus on the .. campaign across the country for not just the Congress but for the alliance as a whole. (Shortly after filing his nomination, he was back on the campaign trail, addressing what by all accounts was a massive rally in Pune).
It is not that he can ignore Rae Bareli — his BJP opponent there is no pushover. Dinesh Pratap Singh, who lost to Sonia Gandhi in 2019, is well entrenched at the grassroots level and a three-time MLC. It is likely to be no cakewalk for Gandhi, but neither is it likely to be the sort of distracting high-octane drama that a Gandhi-Irani battle would have turned into — a battle that would have dominated the narrative and drowned out the Opposition’s message.