Gandhis fend off Modi as India's election nears climax


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 May 2014

Rahul Gandhi (in white), India's ruling Congress party vice president, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attend an election campaign rally in Amethi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh May 4, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

AMETHI India (Reuters) - India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty faced a battle on Wednesday to defend one of its bastions from increasingly confident opposition leader Narendra Modi in the penultimate round of the country's five-week general election.

Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), sensing that its coalition could well be within reach of claiming a parliamentary majority, has ramped up a crusade against Sonia Gandhi and her 43-year-old son Rahul who lead the ruling Congress party.

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