Yet, under relentless public scrutiny, Gandhi has honed his public speaking and leadership skills. In Parliament, where he’s represented Amethi since 2004, he had been a backbencher, leaving the party reins largely to his mother, Sonia Gandhi. Perhaps most important, Gandhi has shown he has the stomach for a fight, even challenging Modi, a much more experienced politician, to a public debate. Whatever the result of the election, Gandhi is now seen as a feisty opponent, most recently in an interview with the Indian Express newspaper. “That destruction of the idea of an invincible Mr. Modi, that destruction of the lie of Mr. Modi, is primarily the work of the Congress party,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post May 09, 2019 03:13 UTC