Rahul Gandhi is the 49th president of the Indian National Congress, the party most closely associated with the Indian freedom struggle, and the primary Opposition party to Narendra Modi's BJP.  He is the sixth member of his own family - the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty - to lead the party.

Rahul Gandhi wasted no time in attacking Narendra Modi's government, saying "those in power" were shaped by the structures that keep India poor. Politics, he said, was being used not to uplift people, but to crush them.