Rahul's fight from Wayanad galvanises the party cadre all over the state. In 2019 elections, riding on the "Rahul wave" among various other factors, the Congress-led UDF won 19 out of a total of 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala, bucking an otherwise national trend of Congress being forced into a corner. This time too the Congress hopes Rahul's presence in Wayanad would help the party repeat its 2019 performance in Kerala. That's why the Congress has refused to give the seat to its alliance partner, the CPI.
