Even while abandoning Rahul in 2019, it’s as if Amethi kept up its love for high-profile contests, as if to keep itself in the reckoning by default, its own little tryst with destiny.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when ... "Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott." ...