India's Gandhi dynasty battles to hold seat in family bastion

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India's Gandhi dynasty battles to hold seat in family bastion

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/indias-gandhi-dynasty-battles-hold-seat-family-bastion-205422900--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8tlgKcMQZ1N9Y0_qYKCGqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-06T205422Z_1_CBREA451M2P00_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-ELECTION.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka showered with rose petals by their supporters at Amethi" align="left" title="File photo of Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka showered with rose petals by their supporters at Amethi" border="0" /></a>By Sanjeev Miglani and Sruthi Gottipati AMETHI, India (Reuters) - At a shabby government health center in the rural bastion of India's ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, mothers cradling sick babies sidestep dogs sleeping in unlit corridors. Few places in India illustrate more clearly how loyalists' support for the ruling Congress party, and the Gandhi family that leads it, has been tested than Amethi, its traditional stronghold around 300 miles southeast of New Delhi. Many people in a constituency that has elected the Gandhis to parliament since 1980 feel they have been left behind and voters are getting angry, threatening family scion Rahul's bid to retain the seat when locals cast their vote on Wednesday. &quot;We are with the Congress party, we have always been from the time of our forefathers,&quot; said Arun Sharma, a local barber.</p><br clear="all"/>

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