India's Gandhi dynasty battles to hold seat in family bastion

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) - At a shabby government health centre in the rural bastion of India's ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, mothers cradling sick babies sidestep dogs sleeping in unlit corridors.

There is no power, there are no nurses on duty and only two doctors - one suffering from a crippling neurological disease - trying to treat 60 to 70 patients a day in sweltering heat.