Ninety-two years ago Mahatma Gandhi set off on a four-week, 250-mile march to defy colonial salt taxes and start the civil disobedience movement that would bring about India's independence from Britain.Last week Rahul Gandhi, 52, set out on a march ten times longer in an effort to restore the fortunes of his ailing Congress party and break the spell cast by the Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi.The Congress Party is facing the prospect of permanent electoral oblivion after a string of election losses and defections.

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