ALLAHABAD • Thirty years ago this month, I stood on the sports grounds of a college in this Gangetic town, home to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, and watched students throw sandals and shoes at the late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, then running for a second term.
Just five years earlier, Mr Gandhi had swept to office in a landslide following the assassination of his mother and predecessor Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. At the time, the press lauded him as “Mr Clean”.
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