03/04/2011 Congress counts on Rahul Gandhi in state poll campaign

03/04/2011

Congress counts on Rahul Gandhi in state poll campaign

(DURING BIHAR ELECTION I WAS CONSTANTLY WRITING ABOUT NITISH KUMAR LED NDA(HIS/PARTIES ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS...AND MY SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE TO VOTERS AND LEADERS BOTH AS A BIHAARI(ITS MY MAYKA-JANMBHOOMI-THOUGH ORIGINAL IS DHANBAAD,NOW IN JHARKHAAD...WHERE INITIAL FEW YEARS I LIVED)...WHAT NEWS I GATHER FORM PRESS... BECAUSE I COULDN'T SEE HIS AND HIS PARTIES ALTERNATIVE THERE.IF ANYONE WANT CAN CHECK IT IN THIS BLOG.DURING THOSE DAYS I HAVE NOT DISCUSSED NEWS ON PHONE WITH MY RELATIVES.

ITS ALL MY OWN COMMENTS AND VIEWS ORIGINALLY...NEWSCLIPPINGS WERE IN SUPPORT.

RAHUL GANDHI LEAD CONGRESS COULDN'T DO WELL THERE AS STILL CONG DO NOT HAVE MUCH BASE THERE...AND NDA LED BY NITISH KUMAR NEEDED CONTINUITY(ITS MY PERSONAL VIEW AND ASSESSMENT).LET SEE IN THIS 5YRS HOW WILL THEY ACTUALLY PERFORM IN REALITY???UMEED HAI SADAKON KE ALAWA BHI VIKAAS KA KAAM BAHAAR KE LOGON KO DEEKHEGA....THOUGH FIRST STEP FOR ANY STATE'S OR AREA'S DEVOLOPMENT IS DEVOLOPMENT OF CONNECTIVITY,COMMUNICATIONS,--ROADS,MEANS OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPOTATIONS,RAILWAY TRACKS ETC...HOPING FOR NEXT STEPS IN BIT FASTER PACE MINUS CORRUPTION!!!

BUT NOW IN THESE 5 STATES LETS SEE HOW RAHUL GANDHI'S CHARISHMA TAKE A TURN..!!
I HOPE HE SHOULD DO WELL WITH HIS YOUNG BRIGADE,AS I SEE HE IS TRYING TO PREPARE HIS OWN GROUP ON THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIC WAY OF INTERVIEWS AND TESTS...AND NOT JUST BASED ON "RESHDEDARIES".THOUGH IF RELATIVES ARE QUALIFIED QUALITATIVLY FOR ANY WORK OR POST OR RESPONSIBILITIES,THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN INCLUDING THEM IN WORK.

(IN MY CASE...SPECIALLY IF SITUATION IS EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFERENT AND ITS SO THAT IF YOU TAKE OUTSIDERS AND IT CREATES CONTROVERSIES IN THE EYES OF OTHERS.....THEN ONE SHOULDN'T THINK OF TAKING OUTSIDERS(EVEN RELATIVES) IN ONE'S TEAM...OR MAYBE ASK THEM TO GET CONVINCE AND FOLLOW YOUR VIEWS IF THEY LIKE OR WANT TO AND BE IN YOUR TEAM OR ELSE NOT,IT WILL BE THEIR CHOICE.IT MAY SOUND DICTATORIAL BUT BETTER THEN CONTROVERSIES MOSTLY BASED ON FICTIONS WHICH DO NOT RESEMBLE 100% WITH ANYONE'S PERSONAL LIVES....NOW YOU WON'T FIND ME THAT POLITE...BUT DEFINITLY IN LIMIT)

..EVEN IN FACEBOOK I AM CHECKING HIM.HE WAS AVOIDING CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT CANDIDATES,AS I HAVE READ IN NEWS ARTICLES.LETS FIND OUT THE REALITIES OF ALL THE PARTIES AND CANDIDATES IN THESE 5 STATES...MERE SE ADHIK UJJALA YA MUTMAILA KAUN(BACKGROUD OF INDIVIDUAL)???

YA FHIR...KYA MEIN CHOR HOON??...YA FHIR..MERE SE BADDA/KAREEB/CHOTTA CHOR KAUN??

I HOPE AND WISH PEOPLE SHOULD FIGHT ELECTIONS AND EVEN VOTE ON THE BASIS OF REAL AND BASIC LOCAL AND IMPORTANT STATE/NATIONAL ISSUES...INCLUDING INDIVIDUALLY CANDIDATE'S CLEANNESS AS WELL.

WAIT AND WATCH IF YOUNG LEADER LIKE RAHUL GANDHI CAN CONVINCE PEOPLE BY HIS CHARISHMA,AND NOT JUST SIRNAME(THOUGH THAT'S AN ADDED QUALIFICATION WHICH ONE GOT BY BIRTH AND LEARN MANY THINGS IN FAMILY'S ATMOSPHERE JUST LIKE THAT AND HAVE ADDED EDGE ON OTHERS BECAUSE OF FAMILY'S REFLECTED GLORY AND NAME,BUT BORN WITH SILVER SPOON SHOULDN'T BECOME BARRIER IN INDIVIDUALS PROGRESS WHERE PEOPLE SAY, HE GOT IT JUST BECAUSE OF FAMILY...IF ONE IS GENUINLY WORKING HARD ON THEIR OWN AND WITH ORIGINAL VISION TAKING PARTY LINE ALONG!!!

HE SHOULD BE AND NEED TO BE JUDGED BY HIS OWN VISION AND CHARISMA...THAT AS A PERSON AND LEADER OF MASSES AND HAS AN ADDED ADVANTAGE OF LEADER OF CLASSES AS WELL...NOW TIME HAS COME THAT HE SHOULD PROVE IT NOW AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!

...IF GROUNDREALITIES AND BASIC NECCESSITIES IS THEIR MAIN CONCERN AND WHAT IS HIS/THEIR ORIGINAL VISION TO COMBAT THE PROBLEMS AND PROVIDE THE SOLUTIONS.LETS SEE IF PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THESE PARTIES AND CANDIDATES ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS AND GOING TO BELIEVE IT AND VOTE ON THE BASIS OF IT.WILL VOTERS USE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE CORRECTLY???...OR RIGGING WILL DEPRIEVED THEM FROM THEIR ONLY ONE ULTIMATE POWER!!!WILL THEY USE IT HONESTLY TO EMPOWER HONEST MAN OR WILL SELL IT FOR SMALL GIFTS OF BENIFITS ANNOUNCED BEFRORE ELECTIONS OR DISTRIBUTED DURING CAMPAINGNS....!!!)

WELL MY GOOD WISHES TO RAHUL GANDHI....ANY YOUNG LEADER WHO ARE REALLY WORKING FOR CHANGE FROM GRASSROOTS TILL PARLIAMENT, NEED TO BE PRAISED EITHER,WHETHER WE SHARE OUR OWN PLATFORM FOR ANY POLITICAL MILEAGE, OR POLITICIANS BENIFIT OR POLITICS BENIFIT OR NOT....THAT'S SEPERATE POINT/ISSUE!!!

IF ANYTHING IS FOR EVERYONE'S BENIFIT....ITS FOR ALL.EVEN POLITICAL PARTIES FIGHTS FOR SOCIETY,AND NEED TO WORK FOR SOCIETY...THIS IS WHAT POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PARLIAMENT IS MEANT FOR.SO ITS BETTER IF POLITICIANS DO THEIR WORK KEEPING CORRUPTION AT LENGTH AND LET COMMON PEOPLE DO THEIR OWN.

JAN ANDOLEN LIKE SHRI JAI PRAKASH NARAYAN'S STUDENTS MOVEMENT IN 1977(SOME HOW IT WAS GENERATED FROM POLITICAL INJUSTICE AND HAD A RIDE ON ANTI EMERGENCY WAVE...BUT FOR SOCIAL CAUSES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE-"SAMAJIK NYAY") FAILED IN THE END BECOZ ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES JUMPED IN IT AND INSTEAD OF BECOMING YOUTH MOVEMENT OR JAN AANDOLEN,WHICH INITIALLY IT WAS, IT HAS BECAME INDIRA GANDHI VERSUS ALL OPPOSITION AND FINALLY SATTA SANGARSH,AUTROCITIES,DICTATORSHIP AND ACTION IN THE NAME OF DISCIPLINE SPECIALLY IN THE CASES OF FAMILY PLANNING... DONE DURING EMERGENCY ON THEM INSTEAD OF BASIC ISSUES LIKE RIGHT TO EDUCATION,UNEMPLOYMENT,LESS NUMBER OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES,POPULATION CONTROL(PICKED UP BY SANJAY GANDHI THEN),CIVIL DISOBIDIENCE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES MEANS EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!

AND THEN DURING MORARJI'S TENURE AS A PM,JANTA PARTY'S ONLY GOAL WAS TO TAKE REVENGE WITH INDIRAJI AND HARASS HER WITH ALL CASES AGAINST HER, WHICH WAS ALSO IMPORTANT,INSTEAD OF GOALS THEY SET FOR NOBLE CAUSE OF YOUTH GUIDENCE.AND FINALLY IN VERY SHORT TIME THEY LOST POWER.(IT HAD OTHER FACTORS INCLUDING INFIGHTING BETWEEN THEIR MAIN LEADERS FOR PM POSTS,AS IT WAS FIRST UNOFFICIAL COALITION...WHERE DIFFERENT PARTIES CAME UNDER ONE UMBERELLA) AND WITH SAHANBHUTI VOTES INDIRAJI CAME BACK TO POWER WITH MAJORITY IN 1980!!!

PLZ READ CHANAKYA...THOUGH CAN'T SAY,HOW MUCH IT IS RELEVANT IN TODAYS TIME AND PERIOD.

MUST BE SOUNDING IN LITTLE FEVOUR OF THEM(POLITICIANS)...INSTEAD OF MY SOME CYNICAL VIEWS AGAINST THEM...JUST LIKE ANY NORMAL INDIAN CITIZEN OF INDIA WHO ARE FRUSTRATED FROM SYSTEM AND AND LOOPHOLES IN IT.

INSTEAD OF JUST ANGRY WITH SYSTEM,POLITICIANS,BIG CORRUPT PEOPLE...ONE SHOULD DO SOME "AATMA-MANTHAN"OF SELF ALSO AND TAKE PLEDGE THAT WHETHER THEY BELONG TO WHICHEVER GROUP,COMPANY,STRATA,CLASS,CREED,REGION,RELIGION,GENDER,LANGUAGE...THEY WILL NOT INDULGE IN ANY KIND OF GIVE OR TAKE OF CORRUPTION OF ANY FORM...FROM RS 50RS TO BIG SCAMS!!! AND MUST THINK WHY AND HOW THESE CORRUPTION IS HAPPENING,TRY TO FINISH OFF THE ROOT CAUSE BY KNOWING IT.

BEING CYNICAL AND FRUSTRATED BY POLITICS/POLITICIANS/BEAUROCRACY/CORRUPTION AND CRIMINALIZATION/MISUSE OF POWER IS NOT INCORRECT BUT... ONE ALSO NEED TO SEE HOW MANY BIG PEOPLE IN RECENT TIME WENT TO JAIL SPECIALLY IN BIHAR FOR CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL CHARGES(LALLUJI,...SHABUDDIN,PAPPU YADAV,AANANT KUMAR ETC).AND REFORMS IN ELECTRORAL FORMAT.ITS A SIGN OF HOPE AND POSITIVITY.SO DO THINK IN BALANCED WAY AND PROCEED.

WHO ALL THINK I DON'T WANT TO WORK,ARE WRONG!!!I PROVED BY NOW THAT I AM WORKING,WHICHEVER WAY YOU'LL SEEING IT..ITS YOUR WAY OF SEEING THINGS.

...IN MY WAY I AM CONSTANTLY WORKING.... AND WOULD LIKE TO DO SO ON GROUND AS WELL.BEFORE THAT NEED TO CLEAR EVERYONE'S MIND FROM MY PERSPECTIVE(MOSTLY HAWAII)...OTHERS WANT TO COUNTERCHECK THEN THEY DO THEIR HOME/GROUND WORK...JUST LIKE CVC CAN NOT JUDGE HIMSELF BUT CAN SPEAK/SHOW PROOFS IN HIS DEFENCE..WHAT HE SPEAKS OR DOES!!!

I NEVER DEFENDED ANY ACT WHICH IS ANTI FAMILY/OFFICE/NATION/OR HUMANITY....BUT ONE NEED TO FIGHT FOR ONE'S OR OTHERS RESPECT/DIGNITY...IF ITS IMPORTANT...AND NOW DON'T WATCH "FICTION AND REACT ACCORDINGLY"...I AM NOT INTERESTED IN WATCHING IT ANYMORE'"...AS I WON'T LET FICTION MAKER DECIDE WHAT I AM AND WHAT I WANT TO BE...!!!..TODAY I SAW "CHANDRAGUPTA TELLING CHANAKYA..."I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY,AS I AM YOUR GULAM,YOU BOUGHT ME BUT...YOU CANNOT BUY MY SOUL,THOUGH TILL THEN HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZED HIS GURU CHANAKYA,AS HE WAS A CHILD THEN!! HE WAS ANGRY WITH KING OF MAGADH AS HIS VILLAGE WAS BURNT BY HIS SAINIK BECOZ THEY CAME TO KNOW THAT VILLAGERS ARE NOT VANVASI,BUT KHATRIA!!! AND THEN CHANAKYA TOLD HIM,"COME WITH ME! YOUR ROUTE TO PATLIPUTRA GOES VIA TAKSHSHEILLA.FIRST YOU HAVE TO STUDY EVERYTHING..ITS YOUR CHOICE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN PASTS DARKER DAYS(HE WAS GULAM AND POOR)OR WANT TO THINK ABOUT TOMORROWS BRIGHT MORNING AND MARCH AHEAD!! I HAVE TO TAKE REVENGE JUST LIKE YOU AS KING GOT KILLED MY SELF RESPECTING FATHER!!!....WELL THAT'S A HISTORICAL TRUTH'S FICTION VERSION"...THAT'S THE WAY GREAT MAN IN MAKING THINKS....IF THEY REACHED TILL END"

THOUGH IT'S NOT HARMFUL ONE WATCH IT FOR ENTERTAINMENT OCCASIONALLY....!!

I HAD TO PROVE MY POINT,I DID IT SUCCESSFULLY!!!...IF SOMETHING BAD WHICH ONE DISLIKES HAS SHOWN,THEN UNDERSTAND HOW IT HAPPENED EARLIER ALSO....SO IN A WAY IT GOOD IT HAPPENED!!!

... ITS OTHER SIDE OF COIN TO SEE.


AANDOLON IN RECENT YEARS-THOUGH THIS ONE IS FOR BIGGER CAUSE WHICH EFFECTS EVERYONE'S LIFE.

FOR THE DEMAND OF OPENING OF HFC'S BARAUNI...IN BIHAR,WHICH HAS TAKEN UP IN BROADER SCALE WITH ALL ITS OTHER SICK UNIT OF HFC/FCI WERE INCLUDED IN IT OF INDIA...AS MUCH IT IS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE TO MADE TO BE ONE.

AANDOLON OF YOUTH FOR EQUALITY.

DIFFERENT AANDOLON'S IN ALL THE STATES WITH OWN REASONS INCLUDING J AND K,....BUT I DO FEEL ONE CAN TRY IT TO KEEP IT AS PEACEFULL AS POSSIBLE.WITHOUT DISRUPTING IN DAILY WORK UNLESS IT WILL BECOME VERY IMPORTANT AND NECCESSARY,OTHERWISE IT WILL CAUSE MUCH NATIONAL LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY...AND MAYBE IT'LL TAKEN AS 'NUKSAAN TO COUNTRY' DUE TO YOUR ACTION,MAYBE HOW GOOD YOUR INTENTION IS,AS PEOPLE JUDGE A PERSON'S ACTION...ITS REFLECTIONS,RESULT WITH THEIR OWN INTEREST,PERSPECTIVE AND KNOWLEDGE!!!

(I AM WATCHING YOU ALL(FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION AANDOLON FROM DAY ONE)

AND MAY SAY "ISSHWAAR ISSE SADDBUDDHI DE(ITS IN CONTEXT OF--talking about news and editorial views is not doing politics one must understand..) OR ACCEPT THE PROBLEM...(my parents/mother are/is not a politician..its I and Sudhirji who know politicians becoz of our work...so plz don't drag anyone from both the sides...as no one is criminal or corrupt either..though they are far better then many of big people as all of them are honest,and upright people including me and sudhirji...all of 3 generations)

I AM WATCHING ALL THE TALKS(5/4/11)...WE DON'T NEED TO BE SO CYNICAL ALL THE TIME.I PERSONALLY HAVE PACIFIED WITH TIME.HAVE GIVEN YOU EXAMPLE OF AMENDEMENTS,CHANGES OR ADDITION IN SEVERAL LAWS FOR ...EVEN USE OF BLACK MONEY FOR PARTY FUNDS AND IN ELECTIONS...(IN WHOLE CONTENT OF MY BLOGS AS I HAVE WRITTEN ON ALMOST ALL TOPICS/ISSUES/SUBJECTS!!...ONE CAN CHECK THE RECORDS,THOUGH AT TIMES IT SOUNDS VAGUE OR MAY BE BIZZARE...),FALL OF GOVERNMENTS FOR PRICE RISE TWICE IN DELHI AND RAJASTHAN IN 1998,FOR ONE VOTE IN CENTRE WHEN MAYAVATIJI DURING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AFTER SAYING YES...SHE DIDN'T CAME TO VOTE AND RETRACTED(DHOKHA...1999)...BEFORE THAT JAYALALITAJI WAS PULLED THE GOVT DOWN BY TAKING SUPPORT BACK...AND MY OTHER INCIDENCES.

(Volume 16 - Issue 9, Apr. 24 - May. 07, 1999---The BSP's about-turn of April 17 was far more dramatic and, in the final analysis, was a crucial factor in the fall of the Government. The final push for the change reportedly came after deliberations among leaders of the Congress(I) and the BSP, including Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati. However, it was obvious that ever since the crisis in the Government manifested itself, Kanshi Ram had advocated voting against the Government while Mayawati argued in favour of helping the BJP survive by abstaining from the vote. Kanshi Ram now says that there was in fact no difference of opinion and that this perceived difference was a camouflage intended to mislead the BJP and foil its attempts to split the BSP. According to him, the party advanced the "Mayawati view" during the debate and the "Kanshi Ram line" at the time of voting.

NISSAR AHMAD
National Conference MP Saifuddin Soz. In the end, it was his decision to go against his party's decision to support the Government that tilted the balance in favour of the Opposition.

However, sources in the BJP claim that even before the AIADMK formally withdrew its support, BJP representatives, including party leader from Uttar Pradesh Lalji Tandon (who is considered to be close to Vajpayee), had approached Mayawati to seek her party's support. They proposed a renewal of the BJP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, and held out the inducement of a major say for the BSP in the administrative affairs in the State. Mayawati, who faces several cases relating to allegations of corruption, was apparently quite taken in by this offer. But Kanshi Ram would not agree to it; he asserted that reviving the alliance now would not be in the BSP's interest. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh approached his political mentor L.K. Advani and scuttled the Vajpayee loyalists' proposal. By all indications it was this, taken with the Congress(I)'s overtures, that made Mayawati fall in line with the proposal to vote against the BJP-led Government.

After the vote, Mayawati said that the BSP had repaid the BJP in the same coin that the Hindutva party had used in Uttar Pradesh, when it split her party. But more than this urge to seek revenge, what seemed to have influenced the party's stand in respect of the confidence motion was a discussion with Congress(I) leaders, which seemed to point to the possibility of working out a political arrangement in Uttar Pradesh, which might include attempts to topple the Kalyan Singh-led Government and install a Ministry in which the BSP would have a significant say. )

....FOR EXAMPLE IN PAKISTAN VISIT WHEN SHRI ADVANIJI PRAISED SHRI JINAAH THERE WHILE WRITING COMMENT...HE WAS CALLED DESHDROHI AND CRITICISED BY FEW PEOPLE WITHOUT SEEING ITS BROADER IMPACT IN WHOLE AS A OPPOSITION LEADER.IF A DIGNITARY COMES TO OUR COUNTRY AND VISIT RAJGHAAT WE EXPECT THEM TO PRAISE GANDHIJI OUR RASTRAPITA...SO ONE SHOULD SEE THE LONGER AND BROADER IMPACT BEFORE CRITICISING ANY ACTION OR DIPLOMATIC GESTURE,ATLEAST OF BIG AND IMPORTANT PERSON...VVIP'S....!!!

LAST TIME I AM MENTIONING IT,AS HEARD BY SOMEONE.... IF ANY COMPANY AND PERSON's,INDIVIDUAL,GROUPS FACED PROBLEMS,ITS THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE,WHAT THEY HAVE SPOKEN OR ARE SHOWING WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHOLE SITUATIONS AND THERE IMPACT (SPECIALLY SAHARA AND (OTHERS ALSO) SHOULD UNDERSTAND PEOPLE USED TO TAKE THEM MORE SERIOUSLY EARLIER AS TVI DO NOT EXIST,IF ONE DON'T LIKE THEY CAN SWITCH OFF THE CHANNEL PLZ...INCLUDING,I OR MY NEAR ONE'S).

BUT IF THEY GET BENIFITED BY GETTING INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN...AND THINK I HAVE SOME CONTRIBUTION IN IT...THEN PLZ THANKS ME FOR IT.I AM READY TO TAKE CREDITS OTHER THEN DISCREDITS NOW.)

I AM SURE THEY ALL UNDERSTAND HOW EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED OR HAPPENNING.

GOOD WISHES TO WHOLE HUMANITY INCLUDING ME.


New Delhi: Having recovered from a fractured leg, Congress star campaigner Rahul Gandhi is all set for hectic electioneering as elections in five states get under way Monday.

Congress counts on Rahul Gandhi in state poll campaign

Gandhi, informed sources said, is determined to lift the morale of the Congress whose shocking defeat in Bihar last year led critics to question the vote pulling ability of the party's general secetary.

Until some time ago, it was not even sure whether Gandhi, 40, who had fractured a leg apparently during a workout, would even campaign. But he made his first public appearance after a long time at Mohali March 30 when India defeated Pakistan in the World Cup cricket semi-final. He was then seen at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai watching the cricket final with friends in the stands.

"Rahul's campaign will lead the Congress to victory in these assembly polls" in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and West Bengal, Congress leader Mohan Prakash told IANS.

Even the best of Congress supporters admit this is easier said than done.

Gandhi's office did not provide details of his campaign programme, citing security reasons.

Party leaders said he will campaign specially for candidates from the Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India (NSUI), which are under his charge.

Gandhi did not campaign in the first phase of the polls Monday in Assam, where the Congress is confident of retaining office. But he will campaign in the second phase due on April 11.

Congress counts on Rahul Gandhi in state poll campaign

In Kerala, which goes to the polls April 13 along with Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Gandhi is likely to campaign for several student and youth leaders, the sources said.

They include former NSUI chief Hiby Eden and former state Youth Congress leader M. Liju, who are contesting from Ernakulam and Ambalappuzha respectively.

"The Rahul appeal is strong in Kerala. He created a good impression during his visits to colleges and youth conferences in the the past two years," Kochi-based analysts K. Sreekumar told IANS.

Sreekumar says that Gandhi's informal style is widely appreciated.

Gandhi will campaign in Tamil Nadu too, taking care to keep a distance from the scam-tainted ally DMK, the sources said. The Congress is contesting 63 seats in the 234-member house.

The son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi may visit Poducherry too where the party is contesting 17 of the 30 seats.

In West Bengal, where the balloting is spread over six phases from April 18 to May 10, party managers hope to unlesh Gandhi after Apil 13 -- the day elections get over in southern India.

"Gandhi's campaign will be independent of meetings addressed by (Prime Minister) Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi," a party leader said.

Political analyst Yogesh Vajpeyi says that Gandhi's campaign is very crucial for his career.

"The spectrum scam, the Commonwealth Games corruption charges and other scams have defamed the Congress. If the party puts up a fair show in states like Kerala and Assam, Rahul's charisma will be hailed," he said.

Congress counts on Rahul Gandhi in state poll campaign

Otherwise, he warned, the undeclared plan of the Congress to project the Nehru family scion as the successor to the 78-year-old Manmohan Singh will slow down.

Vajpeyi also linked Gandhi's planned campaign now to the elections due next year in Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress has been out of power for over two decades.

Gandhi was widely credited with helping the Congress to win 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state in 2009.

"If Rahul performs well now, his lead role in Uttar Pradesh will continue," Vajpayei said.

Gandhi was a major campaigner for the Congress in Bihar too late last year but his charisma failed to click.

The Congress fared miserably, winning just four of the 243 seats -- fewer than the paltry nine it got in 2006.

"In Bihar, there was good attendance in Rahul's meetings. But these get converted into votes but the organisation was weak," Mohan Prakash said. "Now we are realistic. We will trasform the Rahul charisma into votes."

Source: IANS
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