Battle field of UP is tough and there is no dearth of battle-worn political leader. There will be four-cornered contest among BSP, SP, Congress and BJP. Each claims to defeat the other. The outcome will most probably throw hung assembly.
Congress scion and General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has launched Congress poll campaign for assembly elections to be held early next year in Uttar Pradesh from the Phulpur parliamentary constituency of his great-grandfather, country’s first prime minister and maker of modern India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru’s birth day happens to be on November 14 and it is celebrated as Children’s day in our nation. Rahul Gandhi chose this auspicious day for starting poll campaign of the Congress party for UP assembly elections.
The entire Phulpur was plastered with festoons, pamphlets. There were two big photographs one of Pt. Nehru and the other of Rahul Gandhi. The photo of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh occupied negligible space in festoons, postures and pamphlets. There was no trace of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s photo. It signifies that the party now realizes importance of Nehru's economic policy as the people see hopelessness in economic liberalization of present party dispensation. Nehru advocated mixed economy that had laid the foundation of modern India.
It is well known that Rahul Gandhi is the future of Congress and the outcome of this UP assembly elections will finally determine whether he has charisma or not. Because in the Bihar assembly elections, he failed to leave his imprint on its outcome and the party failed to improve its position. Though he has shown his political worth in UP in the parliamentary elections of 2009 by winning 22 Lok Sabha seats by leading the party during electioneering, UPA's failure on all fronts may cast doom.
Rahul Gandhi has delivered impassioned speech at Phulpur and tried his best to arouse the pride and ego of the people of Uttar Pradesh to fight out the corrupt, inefficient and casteist BSP government of the state. Undoubtedly, his speech would exercise influence on electorates because his intention is noble and he wants to do something for the people of Uttar Pradesh and rest of the country.
As far as the issue of corruption is concerned, UPA government is itself beset with corruption charges from all sides. Price rise has crossed all limits. Dr. Manmohan Singh government has mismanaged the economy and its economic managers have failed completely. If Rahul Gandhi failed to deliver in UP elections, it would not because of his fault but because of the rampant corruption in central government and its failure to rein in sky-rocketing price of all essential commodities.
The economic scenario of the country is bleak. In the given situation choosing Pandit Nehru as his role model to change UP by bringing it on the path of development, Rahul Gandhi has clearly given the message of debate and discussion in Congress party about economic policy change in near future. Economic reform process has been in full swing for 20 years but it has not given desired result. On the contrary, it has widened the gulf between the poor and the rich. Nehru’s photo has not been seen so prominently on postures and pamphlets of the Congress party in the last 30 years. Nehru had started industrialization so that the Indians could stand on their own feet. They could not move here and there for employment to earn livelihood. In the same tone and tenor, Rahul Gandhi asked the people in Phulpur how long you would beg in Maharshtra and earn livelihood as labourer in Punjab. He tried to awaken the people to the failures of Uttar Pradesh government that they have no employment opportunity in their own state. His Phulpur poll bugle has given enough hints on economic policy change and left an imprint on the electorates.
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