AGRA: Pursuing the party's recently adopted soft Hindutva line to woo its lost Brahmin vote in UP, Congress workers in the temple town of Mathura are all set to flaunt Rahul Gandhi 's Brahmin identity by prefixing 'pandit' to his name.Posters welcoming 'Pt' Rahul Gandhi have come up at several places in Mathura for his scheduled visit to the town on October 5. Pundit told TOI, "Two years ago Rahulji had himself stated that he is a Brahmin and after all he is the great-grandson of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru , so prefixing 'Pt' to his name is only natural. "However, political observers said that this is a huge departure from the Congress' earlier slogan of 'Na jat par na pat par, batan dabao hath par' (vote for Congress, not for caste) and a clear assertion of its carefully crafted Brahmin-centric campaign for UP, the brainchild of the party's poll strategist Prashant Kishor . "Whether he puts up a 'Pt' or a 'Maulana' in front of his name, it will make no difference," he said, adding that Congress's Brahmin or Hindutva card would not work in UP.

Source: Times of India September 18, 2016 16:32 UTC