RAHUL GANDHI
Rahul Gandhi, 53, a descendant of the home that presided over Indian politics for almost seven decades, has struggled to get his political legacy out of the shadow of a wealthy dynasty.
Under his leadership, Modi’s BJP crushed the Congress Party, which has usually claimed to represent all beliefs in lawfully liberal India.
Congress, the single opposition group with a pan-India appearance, won only 52 lower house seats in the 2019 polls- however the next biggest party, but with less than 10 per cent of the chamber.
Gandhi’s traditional family constituency was yet overthrown by the BJP.
The four-term senator has been hampered by some criminal cases that BJP members have brought against him, including one that involved a defamation faith that saw him quickly removed from parliament last year.
After a series of public-speaking missteps important internet lampooned him as “pappu”, or brainless, while a leaked US political cable once dubbed the Cambridge-educated senator an “empty match”.
Gandhi is aware that a partnership must have up to defeat the BJP.
He has thus made sure to avoid alienating friends by promising to assume the position of prime minister if they win.