Amid resignation row, Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad Office announces his first tour to his new constituency. Details here

After being banished from the Gandhi bastion, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, the Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi is set to tour his constituency on June 7 and 8. 

His office announced through the Twitter profile designated specifically for the constituency in Kerala, that Rahul Gandhi would be visiting Wayanad to thank the people for their love and support following his victory. 

By garnering 7,05,034 votes, Rahul Gandhi comfortably won the Wayanad seat against LDF's P P Suneer and BJP's Thushar Vellapally. 

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While the poll battle in the constituency was minimal, the crucial issue for Wayanad was the lack of basic infrastructure and tribal land disputes. Forest dwellers belonging to the Paniyas, Kurumas, Adiyars, Kurichyas and Kattunaikkans ethnic groups in Wayanad had remained oblivious to the intense political uproar over the Congress chief's move to go down south along with contesting on his bastion, saying food, shelter and fighting elephant attacks are issues of priority for them, as per reports.

Rahul Gandhi has been at the eye of the storm within his own party since the 2019 Lok Sabha results, over his staunch refusal to take back his resignation from the post of the Congress president, which he offered to quit after his party suffered a massive defeat in the polls managing to gather just 52 seats in the recent general elections, which is just eight more than in 2014 while BJP alone won 303 seats - its highest tally ever. 

A host of political leaders like DMK Chief M K Stalin, Sheila Dikshit, Tarun Gogoi, Siddaramaiah, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Tej Pratap Yadav, Lalu Yadav, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy have urged Rahul Gandhi to stay as the Congress president.

Many Congress state chiefs and leaders have urged Gandhi to remain as Congress president, with Maharashtra Congress making an appeal to Congress president Rahul Gandhi withdraw his resignation from his post, at the same time taking responsibility for the 'disappointing and shocking' Lok Sabha 2019 election results. 

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The Punjab Congress to has passed a unanimous resolution urging Rahul Gandhi to continue as the Congress president and blamed the BJP's narrative of the brand of nationalism for its failure in the Lok Sabha elections.

On the sidelines of the on-going resignation row in the Congress party, the Congress president Rahul Gandhi met with NCP chief Sharad Pawar at his residence in the national capital after being routed in the Lok Sabha 2019 elections.