Congress president Rahul Gandhi
After filling his nomination papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019 from Wayanad, Congress president Rahul Gandhi sought to belatedly mollify the Left by proclaiming that he was not going to utter a word against CPM.
"The CPM and Congress are locked in a fight in Kerala. I understand that my brothers and sisters in CPM will now speak against me and attack me. I am not going to say a word against the CPM in my entire campaign. I am here to send a message of unity," he told reporters in Wayanad.
The Congress party on March 31, had announce that Rahul Gandhi will be contesting from Wayanad along with being his traditional Bastion, Amethi to strenghten the unity of north and south.
However, The left party in Kerala is upset by this move of Congress, saying that the party has took this against its national commitments to defeat the ruling centre party BJP.
"To pick a candidate like Rahul Gandhi against Left means that Congress is going to target the Left in Kerala. This is something which we will strongly oppose and in this election, we will work to ensure the defeat of Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad," CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat had told ANI.
"The decision of Congress to field Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad shows their priority now is to fight against Left in Kerala. It goes against Congress' national commitment to fight BJP, as in Kerala it is LDF (Left Democratic Front) which is the main force fighting BJP there," he added.
"I have come to Kerala to send a message that India is one, be it North, South, East or West. My aim is to send a message. There is a feeling in south India that the way Centre, Narendra Modi ji, BJP and RSS are working like an assault on culture and languages in the South," Defending his decision to contest from two Lok Sabha seats, Rahul said.
Rahul asserted jobs and farmers the two main issues in the elections and took a swipe at the PM Modi, saying that PM Narendra Modi failed in both the fronts.
"Youngsters are running from state to state. Narendra Modi has failed on jobs and farmers," Rahul said.
Rahul further said, "On corruption, the country had faith in the Prime Minister when he said that he will be the 'chowkidar' (watchman). The fact of the matter that the chowkidar himself has given Rs 30,000 crore of Air Force money to Anil Ambani," Raking up the controversial Rafale deal again.
"Anil Ambani has no experience in making any aircraft. Why is the man been given the most defence contract in the country?" he added.
Anil Ambani has repeatedly refused the allegations.
Kerala, which has 20 Lok Sabha seats at stake, will go to polls on April 23. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.
(With ANI Inputs)
