Will teach Rahul how to fight elections on ground in Wayanad: Left parties

Not impressed by Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad in Kerala, Left parties Wednesday asserted that they will teach him how to "fight elections on the ground", even as the Congress said nothing will affect its chief's prospects in the state.

We are fighting this polls to win, a senior CPI leader said, on the eve of Gandhi filing his nomination to fight the elections from the hill constituency.

The Left Democratic Front (LDF) -- a coalition of left-wing parties in Kerala -- has fielded CPI's P P Suneer from the Wayanad parliamentary constituency, which has seven assembly segments, three each in Wayanad and Malappuram districts and one in Kozhikode district.

CPI's Wayanad district leader, Vijayan Cherukara, said the LDF candidate has almost completed three phases of campaigning and he has directly connected with nearly four to five lakh voters.

The fourth phase of campaign is meeting families and it will commence in two days.

The Left feels that the people of the constituency will not choose a candidate like Gandhi as he would not be able to concentrate fully on their issues due to his busy schedule as Congress president at the national level.

Rahul Gandhi is like an invisible God. It will be easy for him to win polls in his family bastion Amethi (Uttar Pradesh). But the soil of Wayanad is something different. We will teach him on how to fight elections on the ground, Cherukara told PTI here.

He said the morale of some Left leaders were slightly hit after Gandhi decided to contest elections from Kerala but our workers have become more energetic and are ready to take up the challenge."