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Billed as a unifying movement, the yatra is an exercise to rebrand the Congress leader as a politician who has the common man’s interest at heart. Will it translate to electoral success?
On 15 November, Ravindra Deshmukh and a group of Congress workers hired a taxi and travelled five hours to meet Rahul Gandhi. The former party president didn’t know they were coming. He didn’t know them at all. But Deshmukh was confident he’d grant them an audience. “That’s what the Bharat Jodo Yatra is all about, isn’t it? Meeting people like us.”
I met Deshmukh outside a large farm in Washim, Maharashtra. It was the 69th day of Gandhi’s nationwide march and the Congress leader had made a stop to address a rally held to mark the death anniversary of …
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
In one of its worst years yet, India’s largest winemaker is facing headwinds on all fronts and has little by way of a plan.
Nepal's democratic uprising offers India a choice to either continue with its failed transactional diplomacy or embrace the patient institution-building that South Asia desperately needs.
