The CPIM mouthpiece editorial titled 'Congress Collapse to be Completed with this Pappu Strike' asserted that the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar was afraid of a defeat in Amethi.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi had also recently expressed his immense respect and affection for the terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad chief, Masood Azhar.
A video has gone viral in which the yesteryear Bollywood entertainer Urmila Matondkar is heard seen declaring that Mumbai had always belonged to the Congress party