Who is Rahul Gandhi, the convicted 'prince' of Indian politics?

India's main opposition, Indian National Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the crowd at the Red Fort during the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) in the old quarters of Delhi, India, December 24, 2022. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has never been a minister in a federal or state government, has not led his Congress party to a general election victory, and quit as party chief after it was demolished in the last parliamentary polls in 2019.

Yet he remains at the centre of India's opposition politics and the main target of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu- nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).