Letters: No room for complacency

Can Rahul Gandhi deliver, is a question uppermost in the minds of political observers

No room for complacency

Ahmed Patel’s return to the Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat should be seen as a rebuff to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as well as Shankarsinh Vaghela, who recently resigned from the Congress and was the BJP’s candidate for the same seat. 

Their script did not work this time, thanks to two Congress members of the Gujarat Assembly rendering their votes for the BJP invalid by their acts of wrongdoing. The Election Commission acted promptly on a complaint by the high-profile Congress delegation led by senior leader P Chidambaram. 

For Shah, whose political craftsmanship