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Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, here at a rally in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, March 12, 2019. REUTERS / Amit Dave

Congressman Rahul Gandhi on Sunday (March 31st) gave a major political rally in Bangalore, southern India, to cement his alliance with a regional party within two weeks of legislative elections.

With our correspondent in New Delhi, Antoine Guinard

This is the first real show of strength of Rahul Gandhi during this campaign for the legislative. In front of several hundred thousand supporters, the opposition leader attacked outgoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the unemployment rate and his promises, not held according to him, to create jobs. He also defended his guaranteed minimum income program for the poor, a campaign measure unveiled last week.

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This meeting, in tandem with a large regional party, was intended to formalize this alliance, in a crucial region for the Congress. Rahul Gandhi, who is counting on a long-term resurgence of his party, remains hesitant, however, as to the strategy to adopt regarding the grand alliance of regional parties against Narendra Modi's BJP. This Sunday, the Congress announced that it would not ally with the Aam Aadmi Party, born of the anti-corruption movement, for the region of Delhi.

But it is especially in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the country and the one with the most seats in Parliament, that Congress is the biggest loser. Despite the historic alliance formed by the two major regional parties against the BJP, the formation of Rahul Gandhi alone, to conquer the 80 constituencies of this state oh so important for the legislative.