Huge attendance turned out for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday as she filed her nomination for the upcoming Wayanad Lok Sabha by election. In her first electoral contest in Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi will face LDF’s Sathyan Mokeri and BJP’s Navya Haridas.
Huge attendance turned out for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday as she filed her nomination for the upcoming Wayanad Lok Sabha by election. In her first electoral contest in Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi will face LDF’s Sathyan Mokeri and BJP’s Navya Haridas.
Sathyan Mokeri is a former MLA from the Nadapuram constituency in Kozhikode, and he is known for his contributions to solving agricultural issues. Navya Haridas is a two-time councillor in the Kozhikode Corporation, and he is also the state general secretary of the BJP Mahila Morcha. After a mega roadshow that was held in Kalpetta, Priyanka went to the district collectorate filed her nomination form, and submitted it to District Collector and Returning Officer D. R. Meghashree. She was accompanied by her brother Rahul Gandhi, Congress national president Malikarjun Kharge, mother Sonia Gandhi and the party general secretary K C Venugopal. Priyanka Gandhi’s husband and her son were also there, but they stayed outside the collector’s chamber.
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According to their public claims, it was the first time a large number of public people came to Kerala’s hilly district of Wayanad. In this roadshow, there were thousands of party workers who participated from Wayanad and nearby Kozhikode and Malappuram districts. Many young and old, men and women with many carries their babies, and children lined up the roads to catch a quick view of the Gandhi’s.
A group of young women said, “This is the junior Indra Gandhi, and we will ensure that she wins with the biggest ever margin.”
In an interview, Abdurrahman, a daily worker from Nilambur in Malappuram, said he had no doubts that Priyanka would win.
In another interview, Abbas, who runs a restaurant who came to participate in this roadshow, also said that nobody doubts that Priyanka will win.
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The bypoll will be held on November 13 and for Priyanka it’s a tough competition because there are two more experienced leaders in front of her, CPI leader Sathyan Mokeri and Kozhikode municipal councillor Navya Haridas from BJP.
The Congress is focusing on increasing Priyanka’s majority, and they are much more confident about winning the Wayanad seat. This is the first time when the Gandhi family is campaigning together for any election in Kerala. After 2016 this is the first time when Sonia Gandhi went for any election campaign.
The bypoll is going to be held at a time when Wayanad has yet to recover from the devastating landslide of July 30. And for that, Congress and LDF party continuously criticised the BJP government for declaring a relief package for the affected village.
