April 11, 2024

RAEBARELI/HALOL, India, April 11 (Reuters) - The city of Raebareli in northern India has for most of the last 75 years been the political fiefdom of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that dominates the once-powerful Congress party and provided three of the nation's prime ministers. But, with India's general election just weeks away, the party's central offices there tell the story of its decline.

Clothes dried in the courtyard, while a washing machine beeped and a family living out of the office went about its morning chores. No other Congress workers were present.

"Some people here say the end of the Gandhi era is now imminent," said teacher K.C. Shukla, a Congress member who resides in the house where his relatives had set up a party office decades ago.

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