Wayanad: INDIA bloc fault lines play out on Rahul Gandhi's safe seat

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Accompanied by his sister Priyanka, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has filed his nomination papers for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala today, just as his chief opponent Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India (CPI), party general secretary D Raja's wife, too filed her nomination..

The BJP has fielded its Kerala state president K Surendran as a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate from the constituency...

In 2019 elections, riding on the "Rahul wave" among various other factors, the Congress-led UDF won 19 out of a total of 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala, bucking an otherwise national trend of Congress being forced into a corner.. This time too the Congress hopes Rahul's presence in Wayanad would help the party repeat its 2019 performance in Kerala..

Fault lines in the INDIA bloc split wide open in Kerala after CM Pinarayi Vijayan said a few days ago that it was "inappropriate" of Congress to field sitting MP Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad against CPI's Annie Raja, defeating the alliance's professed aim of taking on BJP-led NDA...

CPI general secretary D Raja has argued that a leader of Rahul Gandhi's stature should contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from a seat where he can directly challenge the ruling BJP,..

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