India General Elections It’s curious how the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is having unintended and totally unexpected impacts on India’s general election campaign, just a few weeks ahead of the polls opening on April 16.
Varun Gandhi, grandson of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, has refocused the Bharatiya Janata Party’s fundamentalist electoral platform over the past three weeks. In addition to this the memory of the anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 has focused attention on a less-than-savoury side of the Congress Party.
