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India’s biggest election prize: Can the Gandhi family survive Modi?

India's Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, second right, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, second left, greet their supporters during a roadshow on April 3, 2024 [R Satish Babu/AFP]

Amethi/Rae Bareli, India – Irfan*, a tea stall owner, is convinced that change is afoot.

“There has not been much traffic on this road from Rae Bareli to Amethi ever since the Congress lost power in 2014,” he says, referring to two towns and a party that for decades have been synonymous with one family – the Nehru-Gandhis, or as they are more commonly known, the Gandhis.

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