The Congress party has engineered a big political defection in Kerala. The media is virtually paying no heed to the development or the media has little or no knowledge of the development.
Rahul Gandhi won from Rae Bareli and Amethi Lok Sabha seats in 2024. Rahul Gandhi resigned from Wayanad seat as he was perplexed by the demands of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). So Rahul Gandhi resigned and shifted the IUML agony to Priyanka Vadra.
Wayanad LS seat consists of seven Assembly seats. Three seats fall in Wayanad district, three ACs fall in Malappuram district while one seat Thiruvambady falls in Kozhikode district. In the previous 2021 Assembly election three Acs were won by the Congress party while one seat Eranad was won by the Congress party ally the IUML. From Nilambur AC the Left Democratic Front supported candidate P. V. Anvar won the seat. P. V. Anvar defeated V. V. Prakash of the Congress party.
But in recent days a big political storm brewed in Kerala when Nilambur Independent MLA PV Anwar went against his alliance the LDF and announced to form his own political outfit the Democratic Movement of Kerala.
The Gandhi family is behind all the political forays of P V Anwar. The Gandhi family is precarious of Priyanka Vadera’s prospects in Wayanad as the electorates are highly upset with the family that the family had ditched them. The seat was won by Rahul Gandhi in 2019 when Rahul Gandhi even lost his traditional seat of Amethi. So the Gandhi family picked P V Anwar for political engineering in Wayanad. By doing this somersault the Gandhi family has tried to counterbalance the effects of the IUML on Wayanad LS seat as out of 7 Acs two Acs Nilambur and Thiruvambady are IUML strongholds. The Gandhi family requires strong willed support of the IUML for winning the seat but by engineering P V Anwar’s episode the Gandhi family firstly tried to make prospects strong for Priyanka in by-poll besides downsizing the IUML effect. P V Anvar already announced support to Congress party in Palakkad assembly by poll. The Palakkad episode clearly demonstrated the Gandhi family’s role in P V Anwar’s episode. Though P V Anwar is silent in Wayanad for support to Priyanaka but Palakkad episode and timing of P V Anwar’s political animosity against LDF clearly shows Gandhi’s family hand.
Its long-drawn strategy of the Gandhi family to engineer such kind of political defection for their familiar benefit. In Maharashtra the Congress party and Sharad Pawar engineered defection within the Shiv Sena and formation of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of Raj Thackery. In late 90s in Gujarat the Congress party played a direct game in defection within the BJP and formation of Rashtriya Janata Party under leadership of Shankersinh Vaghela. Later the Congress party supported him to become the Chief Minister. Vaghela finally joined the Congress party.
