Why Rahul Gandhi is launching Maharashtra poll campaign from Vidarbha

Vidarbha utilized to beryllium a accepted Congress stronghold but the enactment mislaid its grip connected it arsenic the BJP won 44 of the 62 Assembly constituencies and the enactment was reduced to 10. Five years ago, the BJP’s tally fell to 29 but the Congress’s spot number roseate to lone 15. The party’s show successful the Lok Sabha elections, successful which it won 4 of the 10 parliamentary seats successful the region, has besides fixed it a crushed to hope. The INDIA confederation bagged 7 Lok Sabha constituencies, with lone 3 going to the Mahayuti.

One of the large reasons attributed to the Congress and the MVA’s occurrence was its run connected the issues of Constitution, reservation, and caste census. The Opposition had alleged that the BJP would airs a menace to the Constitution and the quota strategy if it returned to powerfulness with a bigger mandate than successful 2019, erstwhile it won 303 seats overall. This resonated successful Vidarbha, which has a vibrant and almighty Dalit question and a sizable colonisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

Two of the Congress’s apical leaders, including its authorities president Nana Patole and Leader of the Opposition successful the authorities Assembly, Vijay Wadettiwar, are from Vidarbha. Apart from them, the enactment has respective almighty second-rank leaders.

On Wednesday, Gandhi volition sojourn the Deekshabhoomi, the tract wherever Ambedkar converted to Buddhism, and past caput to the Constitution league organised by a non-political outfit called the OBC Yuva Manch.

“The Maharashtra authorities was readying to present chapters of Manusmriti successful the schoolhouse curriculum. It is simply a bigger menace to Indian democracy. Safeguarding the Constitution, which has fixed rights to each Indian citizen, is our work and the league is organised for this aim,” said Anil Jaihind, the organiser of the programme.

“It is an apolitical event. Several organisations crossed the authorities are going to articulation it and the Model Code of Conduct volition beryllium observed,” said Wadettiwar.

In the evening, Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray, and Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar volition code a “Swabhiman Sabha” successful Mumbai. At the event, MVA’s canvass guarantees are expected to beryllium announced.

Farm indebtedness waiver and caste census are apt to beryllium among the large guarantees. The confederation could besides denote a Universal Basic Income strategy to antagonistic the Eknath Shinde government’s Majhi Ladki Bahin strategy nether which Rs 1,500 is deposited successful the accounts of women beneath the poorness line.