India's Congress leader Rahul Gandhi faces backlash over election drubbing


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  • Thursday, 23 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: Rahul Gandhi, President of India's main opposition Congress party, looks up before releasing his party's election manifesto for the April/May general election in New Delhi, India, April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Honest, intelligent and open to new ideas is how officials of India's main opposition Congress describe their leader, Rahul Gandhi, but the party's election performance has been so poor he now risks losing even his family's traditional seat.

As vote-counting trends on Thursday showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party winning 285 seats against just 53 for Congress, current and former party officials blamed a lacklustre campaign and a failure to overhaul its top team.

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