For many outsiders, Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi losing the seat his family...
AMETHI, India - For many outsiders, Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi losing the seat his family has held for decades was the biggest shock of India’s election, which was won, as expected, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling alliance.
They said that as Gandhi criss-crossed the country trying to stop Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party from retaining power, he all but ignored the constituency that had elected a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty - including his father, mother and uncle - at all but two votes since 1980. “Gandhi used to work for the development of Amethi, but in the past five years there was hardly any progress in the area,” Sidharth Pratap Singh, a college student told Reuters about the three-time Amethi lawmaker.
In Uttar Pradesh, where millions of first time voters took part in Indian’s mammoth multi-week trip to the ballot box, many young people were looking for progress and change. Local Congress workers denied Amethi was ignored by Gandhi, saying he had spent about 35 days in his constituency since May 2014, when Modi first came to power.
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