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He has been traveling India on foot for more than three months.
Despite the hundreds of kilometers accumulated, Rahul Gandhi, 52, swallows strides with the appetite of a seasoned hiker.
The heir to the Nehru-Gandhi, who have three former prime ministers in their ranks, launched his journey on September 7 in Kanyakumari, in the southern tip of India.
Since then, it has been heading north towards Kashmir, which it should reach on January 26.
He is not plagued by fatigue or lassitude.
This tenacity is the whole story of his life.
Since entering politics in 2004 with the dynasty party, the Congress, the grandson of Indira Gandhi, great-grandson of Nehru and son of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated in 1991, has known only almost failures.
He was sharply beaten by the BJP, Narendra Modi's Hindu fundamentalist right, in the 2014 legislative elections. Five years later, Modi crushed Congress and won 303 seats out of 543 in the…
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