Congress’s Vadodara plan went wrong when BJP announced Narendra Modi would contest from there. Narendra Rawat had cleared the Congress’s primaries and was picked as its Vadodara candidate.
And then Modi happened. Sources said Congress after realizing that a complete rout awaited Rawat, coaxed him to pull out and para-dropped senior party leader Madhusudhan Mistry to take on Modi. Mistry is Congress’s general secretary and a Rahul Gandhi confidant.
But in doing so, the party realized it was being seen as making a mockery of its primaries, a brain child of the party vice-president. Rawat provided the face-saver by saying he himself wanted out to pull out of the race and be replaced by a heavyweight Congress leader to take on Modi.
This carefully crafted script, however, was trashed when a group, claiming to be Rawat supporters, burnt Sonia Gandhi’s effigies in Navayard area near Sangam Crossroads late on Tuesday night to protest against their leader being replaced by an outsider.
A red-faced Congress had to then come up with what is being seen as a unique twist, claiming that those who burnt the effigies were actually BJP supporters, not Rawat’s men.
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