India: Modi Sounds Desperate in National Elections & Gandhi Chooses Rae Bareli

Last week saw a surge of international responses, interviews, and editorials to The Washington Post story on the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) officer involved in Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s assassination plot. Indian media continued to demonstrate its bias, saying Indians can’t wait to see Canadian PM Justin Trudeau go. Indian PM Narendra Modi led the charge from the front saying, ‘We do not give foreign governments dossiers on terrorists. New India kills them on their home turf.’ His tweets used to gather hundreds of thousands of Likes and Reposts and are now barely getting into double digits. Modi’s desperation shows as he continues to lash out at INC, stating that after jewelry and extra rooms in homes, they will even snatch the second buffalo from dairy farmers, or Muslims are rallying to commit ‘vote jihad.’ The media in Pakistan praised Rahul Gandhi and it gave PM Modi another chance to insinuate that INC was being sponsored by the neighboring nation. The INC has decided Rahul will opt out of contesting from Amethi and will fight the elections from Rae Bareli. Last time, Rahul lost from Amethi, and INC president, Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi, won from Rae Bareli. Now Sonia has joined the Rajya Sabha (Upper House). The move has deflated Rahul’s contender Smriti Irani and the corporate media which was looking forward to the contest. Kishori Lal Sharma, a Gandhi family loyalist who has managed Amethi for forty years, will fight from the constituency. After Ajay Mishra Teni whose son was accused of mowing down farmers in Oct 2021 was given a ticket from Lakhimpur Kheri, BJP has given a ticket to Karan Bhushan Singh from Kaiserganj. Karan is the son of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of wrestler infamy who had to resign from the presidentship of the Indian Wrestling Federation.