India election: Congress’s Gandhis, trailing Modi, battle for political survival

Over two dozen opposition parties, including Congress, formed the anti-BJP “INDIA” coalition last year but the bloc has been riven by bickering and defections by important members.

The city of Raebareli in northern India has for most of the last 75 years been the political fiefdom of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that dominates the once-powerful Congress party and provided three of the nation’s prime ministers. But, with India’s general election just weeks away, the party’s central offices there tell the story of its decline.