India votes: Can the Gandhi family hold on to its last stronghold? | DW News

India's massive, six-week national election is now entering its final stages. We're going to zoom into a small district in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 lawmakers to Delhi; that's fifteen percent of the Parliament. The district of Raebareli is the last bastion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, the dynasty that ruled India for more than 50 years.
DW Delhi bureau chief, Sandra Petersmann, went to Raebareli to find out whether this election could mark the 'political' end of the Gandhis.

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[nick]

They are not real Gandhi family, they just used Gandhi as surname

[tenton]

They are related to Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. They are his descendents. They are NOT related to the Mahatma Gandhi.
Hence your headline should read 'Nehru dynasty'.

[kathiravanpandian]

Congrats DW for show the Ghandi families original name who have been stealing Mahathma Gandhi's Name for decades.

[gk]

DW don't know BJP is actually famous in Low caste community 😂

[akrishnan]

This family is most hated in India for the following reasons: 1. They misruled/mismanaged our country and made India one of the poorest countries in the world. 2. They brought in family politics in the country which deprived the country of meritorious people not being able to work for the country. 3. They are the most corrupt and cunning family and people's welfare is their last priority. 4. They thought that by uniting the so-called minorities in a so-called secular country and dividing the so called majority community based on caste equiations to get certain number of votes they will get 30% of all votes to rule the country. They succeeded initially when people are not informed of their misdeeds to some extent, but since this bluff is now called by Mr Modi, they are facing irrelevance. History will remember the family as the most treacherous as they failed on every country and cheated the Indian people. The scion of the family cannot win in any of the constituencies and had to flee from the so called family constituency to a constituency where the so called minority communites constitute 60% of voters. Until this segment of voters continue to mislead this scion will win.

[vipendrasingh]

Wrong map of India, actually quite insulting to Indians, wrong reporting that Uttar Pradesh is 50 percent of parliament and not to mention wrong spelling of Gandhi. Substandard DW.

[lifeinjapan]

OMG! They can't even spell Gandhi. Gandhis are surely gone. Lol

[BharatFirst]

Surname "Gandhi" is adopted one. Real is Khan.

[p.d.bharwad]

First...Priyanka's surname is not Gandhi it is Vadra, Priyanka second she's just reincarnation of Tamraj Kilvish and Modiji is our Shaktiman....😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Iamroyl]

Show correct map of India... shameless channel

[JohnnyRotten-ufxw]

DW needs Charu to teach them how to spell 'Gandhi' before talking about them.

[kirannnnnn]

Government of india needs to send back Western journalists,
These journalists are dangerous than islam.

[pmt]

DW knowingly didn’t ask the most obvious question which is “why has the dynastic seat of congress never seen development in the 75 yrs of independence” out of which Congress ruled for 60 years. This just shows what congress does once it gets elected. Now compare this to seat of PM candidate from BJP.

Maybe DW doesn’t understand the magnitude of 66% voter turnout, that too in middle of heatwaves. If u call this low voter turnout I wonder what u have to say about US and other European countries!

[ruuuuudooooolph]

Looks like we have an uneducated employee at DW.

[_kartik_chauhan]

Observe that constituency and then check the constituency of Mr. Narendra Modi, which is Varanasi. You will see the difference. Evaluate for yourself when you say Modi's win is bad for democracy. If he had done something good, he will win, that's it.

[Manish_Kumar_Singh]

Education is free in india.

The quality might not be that good, but the government pays for Dalits and women to go to school and college along with free food.

[zaurukraus]

It's almost immoral to wish for a political dynasty to "hold on" to a particular region's electoral seat. With time every place should have a change, and repeatedly electing the same family is a sign of decay in democracy.

[fredrickdemello]

Are you people illiterate? How do you mispell gandhi?

[samymarathon]

Leftists in India talking about modi sound like leftists in the US talking about trump. Leftists will never change.

[howarddrake]

This dynasty thing should end. India has grown out of this mindset that foreign is best, and now wants competent Indian rulers who can give them a sense of pride in their ancient civilization and modern day aspirations.