India’s Rahul Gandhi bets on 6,700km trek to stop Narendra Modi’s election juggernaut

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Rahul Gandhi — scion of the Indian National Congress, perpetual political underdog and opposition hope for reclaiming national leadership — is taking his political message straight to the public with a dramatic ploy: a 6,700km trek through 15 states.

Gandhi embarked in January on his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (Unite India for Justice March), starting in the conflict-torn eastern state of Manipur and due to finish in mid-March in western Mumbai. The journey, undertaken just months before an expected general election, is intended to lift the fortunes of an opposition front widely seen as a waning force.

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