Rahul Gandhi is on a roll. He is being appreciated & is being trolled but he refuses to leave the headlines. Ever since the hug and the wink, his political fortunes have acquired a swing with many debates on the evening TV and the Newspaper edits centered around him. But as he stirs up the buzz and himself jokes that BJP MPs nowadays run away from him for the fear of them being hugged, he is silently firming up his strategy for the 2019 polls. 

 

Interestingly his primary strategy this time is largely designed to help the Allies best utilise their strength to electorally match the BJP might in their respective states.

 

People close to the Congress President are already working the phones and allies have messages for a coalition directly delivered from the office of the Congress President. But this all may not be new. What is new this time is that Rahul Gandhi will be devoting his party's energies in those states where Non-BJP players are bigger than the Congress. Accordingly, four major states have been selected even as the first phase of Rahul Gandhi's plans takes shape.

 

The grand plan is that Rahul Gandhi has asked Congress colleagues to focus on defeating BJP and its Allies in just four states and leave the rest to him. These states are Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar (TUMB). The idea is that with the regional players strongly ensconced in these states Congress perhaps won’t have much of a chance even in 2019. But instead of playing a spoil sport Congress has decided to forget the past and help the regional powers sew-up such an alliance in these states which will enable them to win against the BJP.

 

Party insiders say Congress is sure about the victory of its allies in Tamil Nadu, UP and Bihar while in Maharashtra it has to take charge itself. Together these states constitute 200 odd seats most of which presently are with the BJP. 

 

Rahul's Strategy team feels its the 'two horse race' policy which has to be employed to checkmate BJP in 2019 elections. All against BJP best suits the Congress and thus Congressmen have been asked to selflessly work towards the goal in these 4 crucial states where Cong over the years has lost much of its lustre. 

 

Congress strategists feel a silent unease is building against the Govt in its fifth year and that needs to be utilised without letting the anti-BJP votes get divided. But the lurking fear remains that this unease may get mitigated if the politics of religion & nationalism acquires centre-space. Therefore, the second important 'think' apart from the TUMB theory is henceforth Congressmen will be seen speaking only on the 'Naujwaan & Kisan' theme to let the silent aggression against the Govt. especially in the lower middle class, youth and the farmers take shape.