The opposition leader’s return to the fray, ahead of India’s general election next year, looks like a vindication for the many who considered his conviction to have been a political stitch-up orchestrated by Narendra Modi’s supporters
. It has also increased a spurt of momentum behind the prime minister’s opponents, who recently clubbed together to form an anti-Modi alliance.
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance , which includes Congress and most other opposition parties, appears to have put Mr Modi on the back foot, a rare occurrence, over his party’s handling of ethnic violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
The controversy interrupted a tentative improvement in Mr Gandhi’s helmsmanship of a party previously led by his father, grandmother and great-grandfather, all Indian prime ministers.
Congress and its partners would need to find an attack-line more relevant to most Indians’ daily lives, reckons Neelanjan Sircar of Ashoka University, near Delhi. “Without a genuine opposition narrative it is hard to imagine the alliance making much of a dent in the, on economic inequality and those left behind by India’s economic growth holds promise. It will still be hard to erode Mr Modi’s overwhelming dominance. But even if Mr Gandhi has his work cut out, he is at least now back at work.
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