Veteran of India's opposition Congress expected to win leadership race

FILE PHOTO: Police frisk supporters of India's main opposition Congress party as they arrive to attend a rally addressed by the party's leader Rahul Gandhi during his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) in Ballari in the state of Karnataka, India, October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Manoj Kumar/File Photo

BALLARI, India (Reuters) - Members of India's opposition Congress party voted on Monday to elect its first head in nearly 25 years from outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of leaders, with a veteran loyal to the family expected to win.

Results are due on Wednesday in the battered party's bid to revamp itself after losing the last two general elections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party, despite the leadership of Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia.