RAHUL Gandhi, scion of India’s leading political dynasty, said on Wednesday (March 5) – just hours after national elections were announced – that his ruling Congress party will rout the main opposition with “love”.
Gandhi, frontman for the Congress campaign and likely to become prime minister if it wins, said the party would overcome the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with love just as it did the British 67 years ago.
“The way that the Congress party sent the British away with love … the Congress will now send the BJP away similarly with love,” said Gandhi at a rally in Maharashtra.
Gandhi is the son, grandson and great-grandson of prime ministers and his family has dominated Indian politics since the country won independence from Britain in 1947.
