India's Gandhi dynasty facing more than just election defeat


  • World
  • Friday, 16 May 2014

Italian-born Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi stands before large portraits of two slain former Indian prime ministers, Indira Gandhi (L) and Rajiv Gandhi, as she waves to party workers at a rally on the eve of the Congress Foundation Day in Bombay December 27, 2003. REUTERS/Sherwin Crasto

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has defined Indian politics for nearly a century faces more than a humiliating election defeat.

The landslide victory for opposition leader Narendra Modi that seemed certain on Friday as votes were counted could condemn the family to political oblivion.

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