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Smriti Irani, Rahul Gandhi's Amethi nemesis, will be in Wayanad on Thursday as the BJP state president K Surendran files his nomination papers to take on the Gandhi family scion for the Lok Sabha 2024 polls. The BJP and Smriti Irani have kept the pressure on Rahul Gandhi over Wayanad, and don't want it to be a cakewalk for him.
Rahul s fight from Wayanad galvanises the party cadre all over the state. In 2019 elections, riding on the "Rahul wave" among various other factors, the Congress-led UDF won 19 out of a total of 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala, bucking an otherwise national trend of Congress being forced into a corner. This time too the Congress hopes Rahul s presence in Wayanad would help the party repeat its 2019 performance in Kerala. That s why the Congress has refused to give the seat to its alliance partner, the CPI.