Dehradun, Oct. 8 -- Are Rahul Gandhi's recent political agitations centred on a confrontation with the emerging Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) which might take away a substantial section of the anti-BJP youth vote? The manner in which India's traditional left has gathered at the CJP protests will have caused concern in the Congress party, which otherwise has lost political space in middle-class India.
The primary catalyst for Gandhi's recent street-level demonstrations is stated to be the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls overseen by the Election Commission of India (ECI). However, instead of taking the protest down the established parliamentary route, Rahul spearheaded an INDIA Bloc protest march from Parliament towards the...