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Rahul Gandhi, the new Twitter rage, is on cloud 9 on Business Standard. Thanks to demonetisation and the 'faulty' GST coupled with a series of mistakes by the Narendra Modi dispensation, Rahul and his party are on cloud nine<br>
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Business Standard He has arrived: Rahul Gandhi, the new Twitter rage, is on cloud 9 Thanks to demonetisation and the 'faulty' GST coupled with a series of mistakes by the Narendra Modi dispensation, Rahul and his party are on cloud nine “Blind man prays to god that he be given one eye, but receives two”, thus goes a Marathi saying, implying how dame luck smiles suddenly on someone sometimes. The saying aptly reflects the current mood of Rahul Gandhi battered in successive state polls since the ignominy of securing just 44 seats in the last Lok Sabha polls. So far, the spectacular victory in Punjab was the only consolation. and the Congress, badly
Thanks to demonetisation and the ‘faulty’ GST coupled with a series of mistakes by the Narendra Modidispensation, Rahul and his party are on cloud nine, not only bravely facing the polls in Gujarat, the backyard of the Prime Minister as also BJP Chief Amit Shah for the past 22 years, but also enjoying every moment. Poll surveys may have spoken of a smooth sailing for the BJP and majority to it in the 182- member House, but political pundits have put 50:50 chance for the ruling party and the Congress at present when the campaigning is yet to intensify. It would be foolhardy to believe that the two ‘Mahabalis’ of BJP- Modi and Shah- would not attempt to torpedo Rahul and his party on their home turf. But it is equally true that the Prime Minister and the BJP chief have become apprehensive due to the change of the mood of the Gujarat voter which they appeared to have noticed late. Rahul is not only drawing good crowds but is succeeding in his attempts to expose the ‘Gujarat Model’ The desperation in the BJP is showing. The Prime Minister has paid six visits to Gujarat in one month while the BJP chief has done everything possible to make the organisation a fighting machine.The sudden rush of a host of decisions ranging from the cut in Excise duty of Petrol and Diesel as also tinkering with the GST and the major decision to recapitalise the banks—all have been taken to retain Gujarat………read more