Not just fan following

Amethi and Rae Bareli seem synonymous with the Gandhi family now. The locals, too, are generally perceived to be die-hard loyalists in the bastion. But the Gandhi family has recently discovered that voters, especially the youth, cannot be taken for granted. Priyanka Gandhi got a taste of it during an election rally in Amethi, when she stated that her brother and their MP Rahul Gandhi had been visiting them on a regular basis. She had to soon stand corrected as young men in the crowd pointed out that he had not visited them even once. To this, Priyanka Gandhi was forced to reply that he (Rahul) had indeed visited the constituency twice, since he got elected — maybe not to that particular village, but other villages in the district.