Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union minister Maneka Gandhi during a campaign rally in Pratapgarh on May 4 Picture by PTIFor all the rants of the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duopoly against the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, the BJP’s imports from that very clan, Maneka Gandhi and her son Feroze Varun Gandhi, are both tapping on the most controversial figure from Independent India’s first family, Sanjay Gandhi, to corner votes in Sultanpur. In 2014, Varun got 4,10,348 votes in Sultanpur and the SP and BSP candidates together polled 4,59,590 votes. Add to this the feeling that Sultanpur feels a bit short-changed as the BJP has shifted Maneka once too often over the past three elections. Sanjay Gandhi A Telegraph file pictureThe BJP’s decision to make mother and son exchange seats has spawned two contrary theories. The Congress candidate for Sultanpur — “raja of Amethi” Sanjay Singh — is not much in discussion.

Source: The Telegraph May 08, 2019 00:45 UTC