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Watch | Anti-SIR protests: Comeback time for Congress and INDIA bloc?

Rahul Gandhi-led protests raise questions about Congress's revival and Opposition unity


Rahul Gandhi led the INDIA bloc’s ‘Chalo Delhi – March for Democracy’ in New Delhi on October 12, bringing opposition leaders and supporters onto the streets to protest the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. With the march stopped by police barricades and a legal challenge taken to the Supreme Court, the protest has raised a larger political question: Is Rahul Gandhi emerging as the unifying face of the opposition?

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