India's Congress party goes into election warm-up on the backfoot

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By Sruthi Gottipati NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Trailing in opinion polls and stunned by the rise of opposition leader Narendra Modi, India's ruling Congress party is limping into a clutch of state elections, underlining the struggle it may face to retain power when the nation votes next year. Surveys last week showed that Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could win as many as four of the five states going to the polls over the coming month. Opinion polls are notoriously unreliable in India, however. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's Congress party could still cling to power in the capital, Delhi, and it may wrest control of the eastern state of Chhattisgarh from its rival.




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