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News India Live, Digital Desk: Battle for the Seat in Raebareli: Rae Bareli won Rahul Gandhi with a big majority and elected his MP. It was expected that now the new speed of development would be seen. But after becoming an MP, when Rahul Gandhi arrived to preside over his first major official meeting, a new chapter of ‘controversy’ was revealed before the development of development started. The issue of the meeting was development, but a ‘chair’ became the center of discussion.
This entire high-voltage drama was done in the meeting of ‘Disha’ i.e. District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee, and its main characters were MP Rahul Gandhi and MLA from Unchahar Manoj Pandey.
‘Walkout’ before the meeting starts
It happened that Rahul Gandhi was chaired by the meeting of this committee for the first time as an MP. All the MLAs and officials of the district were present in the meeting. Samajwadi Party MLAs (who have now supported BJP) Manoj Pandey also arrived to attend this meeting. But as soon as his eyes were on the system of sitting, his mercury climbed. He stopped for a few minutes and then went out after boycotting the meeting in anger.
Why did Manoj Pandey get angry?
After coming out of the meeting, Manoj Pandey told the media the reason for his resentment. He alleged that an attempt was made to deliberately humiliate him. He said:
“I have been attending the direction meeting for the last 25 years. There is always a seating arrangement for public representatives and MLAs under a protocol. But today my nameplate was put on a couch placed behind. It is not an insult to me, it is an insult to the people of Unchahar.”
Manoj Pandey made it Rahul Gandhi “Children’s act” It was called and said that this is his very poor start as an MP. He said that ego does not work.
Is this just a fight for a ‘chair’?
Although this matter seems to be only a seating system at first glance, but the political equations behind it are much deeper.
- Changed equation: Manoj Pandey is the MLA of the Samajwadi Party, but he took up the recently in the recently concluded elections to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- First face to face: After Rahul Gandhi became an MP from Rae Bareli and Manoj Pandey’s BJP camp, this was the first time that the two leaders were face to face on an official stage.
- Power display? In the political corridors, it is also being seen as the beginning of the ‘India’ alliance and ‘NDA’ in Rae Bareli. It is being seen as an attempt to give a message to this move of Manoj Pandey that even though MP is Rahul Gandhi, he cannot be ignored in the politics of the district.
It is being told that many officials including DM tried to convince Manoj Pandey, but he did not agree. However, the meeting which was called to decide the ‘direction’ of the development of Rae Bareli, started with the ‘opposite direction’ of a political dispute. Now it will have to be seen how much this ‘chair’ conflict affects the development works of Rae Bareli in future.
