Rahul Gandhi alias RaGa alias Pappu alias the Congress Party are searching issues to fight the forthcoming general elections. He has tried very hard to make Demonetization as an issue, but it did not work. It is a two year old issue with much less crowd pulling power today. The party tried hard to create GST implementation and rapid digitization as an issue. This effort failed because the younger generation below 35-40 years of age support both GST and digitization. Other worn out issues of Dalit rights were found, but Modi preempted them by fixing everything back with a newer legislation. The NRC in Assam could be considered as a big issue, but majority supports NRC except Mamata Banerjee in Bengal who wants Muslim from Bangladesh in her state and become her vote bank, but people saw thru her game and she is beginning to loose ground as indicative from a big rally by BJP in Bengal which pulled a huge crowd, meaning people are listening to other parties also.
Hence there is one issue left for Mother and Son duo in the Congress Party to fight the election and I.e. Corruption in Defense deals. They found a legal lacuna in the Rafale defense deal I.e. Secrecy Agreement they signed ten years back with the French. Under this arrangement, either party cannot disclose the details of the deal hence they can keep harping on corruption since details cannot be disclosed. Mother and son now have found an issue for the next elections, it is a new Bofor. ...... Is it?
Incompetence of RaGa and the Congress Party has taken the steam out of the issue. He misspoke about the French President saying something to him during his last visit to India. The French quickly silenced him. Also RaGa has changed stand four times on the price issue in five months, each time quoting a new but a wrong price on the deal. The last one coming closest to what the Defense Minister says is approximately the actual price. Lastly a big mistake committed by the Congress Party ten years back in a separate deal to buy P8i from US, where they padded the price in favor of US to deny the other competitor of the contract. Ten years back were the heyday of the Congress Party when corruption was rampant and deals were padded. We would not have known about it until CAG, the independent Parliamentary accountant blew the subject in open. RaGa, Sonia Gandhi and others, including PM Manmohan and DM Anthony were taken aback. They did not expect that. They might have padded the price in favor of US company for the right reasons, but it is an issue to talk back to the Congress Party and its head honchos if they talk too much about the Rafale deal without evidence.
Still Rafale deal will remain as an election issue, but not a primary one as the Congress Party had hoped about previously. Only if they do then they have to explain the done deal of purchase of P8i surveillance planes from the US.
The Congress Party has been caught in an issue less upcoming election campaign. With Rafale, there was a fire in the campaign, but the fire has been put out by the done deal of the P8i purchase. Other matters of minor importance much less non federal issues are not likely to give them win.
Kashmir is another issue but Modi and BJP are blameless here. It is a Nehru Family creation.
Hence above all issues guarantee an additional term for PM Modi.