2-0=2. After extensively campaigning in Kerala and different states the place Congress might need an opportunity, an inconsequential Rahul Gandhi cancels WB rallies resulting from COVID-19

In a sudden awakening of his conscience, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday introduced that he would cancel all his upcoming marketing campaign rallies within the poll-bound state of West Bengal, which nonetheless has three phases of polling remaining previous to the outcomes being declared on May 2. Important to recollect right here is the truth that Rahul Gandhi has already addressed two ballot rallies within the state up to now few days. Rahul Gandhi – a late entrant to the election marketing campaign of the Congress social gathering within the state of West Bengal, on Sunday cautioned different political leaders to not maintain any rallies, conserving in thoughts the upsurge of Covid-19 circumstances throughout the nation.“In view of the Covid situation, I am suspending all my public rallies in West Bengal. I would advise all political leaders to think deeply about the consequences of holding large public rallies under the current circumstances,” Gandhi mentioned on Twitter. The announcement got here after West Bengal’s election marketing campaign, during which the BJP is on the entrance foot, got here to the discover of the nation’s liberals and political has-beens. Rahul Gandhi being the inconsequential chief that he’s, has the posh of cancelling his public rallies. Other leaders, who matter in state and nationwide politics, nonetheless, can not afford to do the identical.2-0=2— Atul Mishra (@TheAtulMishra) April 18, 2021In truth, Rahul Gandhi calling off his marketing campaign within the state will work in Congress’ favour. After ruining the social gathering’s prospects in Puducherry, Assam and Kerala, Rahul Gandhi had belatedly turned his eyes in direction of West Bengal, regardless of the reported reservations of the social gathering’s state equipment towards Gandhi campaigning within the state. The newest announcement by the Congress scion comes as a sigh of aid for Congress employees in Bengal, who had been simply getting ready for all of the injury management they must resort to in an effort to mitigate the backlash the social gathering’s marketing campaign would face resulting from Rahul’s extravagant shenanigans.Read extra: Rahul Gandhi has lastly entered Bengal and he’ll make certain BJP winsThe ethical grandstanding by Rahul Gandhi comes at a time when the Election Commission has itself taken varied steps to make sure that the unfold of Coronavirus through the subsequent three phases of polling is inhibited. In its order which got here into impact final Friday, the EC mentioned that no rallies, public conferences, road performs, nukkad sabhas, shall be allowed on any day through the days of the marketing campaign between 7 pm and 10 am. Further, the EC additionally prolonged the silence interval to 72 hours for every of the remaining phases.The confidence which the BJP is exuding in West Bengal, and its unprecedented offensive towards the TMC is what’s giving sleepless nights to India’s liberals and opposition social gathering leaders. It is the temper of the state, supportive of the BJP, which is necessitating liberals to go loopy and demand that each one election campaigning within the state be cancelled. Acting on the identical, Rahul Gandhi, whose presence or absence within the state makes no distinction, has thus determined to take the ethical excessive floor and cancel all his rallies within the essential state.