Word: priyanka
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...Prime Minister Rajiv, who was son of the legendary prime minister Indira Gandhi (also assassinated), herself daughter of the country's legendary first prime minister, Jawarahalal Nehru, the father of modern India. As if to highlight the dynastic allure of her party, Sonia had her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka play leading roles in the campaign - she had always made clear that her reluctant sojourn into politics was at best temporary, and it was widely assumed she was simply keeping her late husband's seat warm for one of their children...
From inside the Gandhi SUV, there's little sign of looming disaster. Sonia, 57, is sitting up front; her children Rahul, 33, and Priyanka, 32, are behind, and all three are beaming out at a crush of villagers who envelop the silver jeep and whose faces and skinny bodies are sliding across its windows like a human car wash. Sonia opens her door to stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens...
...inactive has-beens who are blind to the party's present ignominies. Nowadays, the party's sole identifiable belief?beyond its vaguely left-of-center economics?seems to be an awed deference to the Gandhis. The only election slogan Congress supporters ever use is: "Sonia Gandhi! Rahul Gandhi! Priyanka Gandhi!" As one Indian correspondent derisively puts it: "Today's Congress is a personality cult. Only with no personality, and a dying cult...
...wild scenes swamping the Gandhi bandwagon. As Rahul says of these hordes: "This is not political. This is emotional." Rahul says the affection for his family stems from its dedication to public service. But in the hysteria of the crowds, the fevered press discussion surrounding Rahul's dimples and Priyanka's fair skin, and Rahul's insistence that "the same way they feel for us, we feel for them," there is the suggestion of something else: the bond between monarchs and subjects...
...reluctant leader Sonia who most personifies this. The sacrifice of leaving everything she knew?losing her brother-in-law, mother-in-law and husband, then accepting the life that killed them?has earned Sonia a respect and affection in her adopted country that resonate far beyond politics or nationality. Priyanka's Indian businessman husband Robert Vadra describes it simply as "unconditional love." Watching the men and women who turn out in their hundreds of thousands to shout "Sonia Gandhi!" and to throw roses at her, it's hard to dispute that...