The crisis for Congress has raised fresh questions about the party's top leadership -- especially 47-year-old Rahul Gandhi, great grandson of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.-AFP
New Delhi (AFP) - India's Congress party and its controlling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has been synonymous with political power for most of the 70 years since independence, hit a new low with this weekend's vice-presidential election.
The Congress-backed candidate was crushed in Saturday's parliamentary ballot by the nominee of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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