 "Rahul Gandhi faced a formidable challenge taking on a political leader who though dedicated to self-interest nevertheless brought a sense of self-worth to large sections of obscurantist, self-doubting, minority-loathing Hindus")
In many ways this general election has been more about the arrival of Rahul Gandhi as a national leader than about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election. Bean counters would say that such a judgment would depend entirely on the number of Lok Sabha seats that the Congress manages to win. To do that would be to miss out on Rahul Gandhi’s personal and political transformation. He has clearly shed the image of a novice and emerged as an indefatigable and dogged political campaigner who is here to stay.
He has shown focus in his campaign, combativeness in attacking the government’s
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