AMETHI, India, April 27 Kyodo ''R...

AMETHI, India, April 27 Kyodo

''Rajiv Gandhi has arise and it will be a sweeping victory for him,'' says a jubilant Jagdish Prasad Tiwari, 47 of the late Indian Prime Minister's son Rahul Gandhi, contesting parliamentary individuals for the first time from his family bastion in northern India.

The electoral fortunes of the 33-year-old newest entrant and fifth generation of the famed Nehru-Gandhi family, the same of the most famous political dynasties in Asia, is being be present to test from this dusty northern town.

A Gandhi win in Monday's voting is a foregone conclusion for principally people of a backward town caught in a time warp, yearning for the days of his father when the high-profile constituency had all the basic amenities and was forward the road to prosperity.

''The seat left vacant at Rajiv has been filled up by dint of Rahul. We feel Rajiv is back among us,'' said Parmananand Varma, 39 a Congres Party worker.

The poor of this largely agricultural constituency are euphoric through the whole extent of the electoral debut of the young man for a like reason reminiscent of his late father in direct the eyes and mannerisms in this family gateway from where his uncle father and mother all won in the past.

The quiet, shrinking Gandhi, who as a 12-year-old accompanied his father during his election campaigns, has turn backed as contestant after nearly pair decades.

He does not make fiery speeches, just issues a simple appeal to allow him to realize his father's dream of a prosperous Amethi.

He reminds tribe of the sacrifices of his grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and father, the couple of whom were assassinated.

And a touch here, a embrace there, a sharing of the villagers' meals and listening to their tortures have all struck an emotional chord among the people

The ties between the clan of the constituency and the Nehru-Gandhi family dates back when Gandhi's great grandfather was a lawyer to the royal family.

as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but Sanjay Gandhi, Rahul's uncle and Rajiv Gandhi, his father made their political first attempts from this seat. While his uncle died prematurely, it was his father's work that the community remember.

Schools, corporations roads, factories and hospitals were built and villagers had enough power and drinking water in the area, one time considered of the most numerous undeveloped areas of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh.

The area was upon the path of progress while Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister from 1984-89 yet after his death in 1991 the leave out began.

Today, united of India's most high-profile parliamentary seats is in a state of despair.

The roads are pothol many factories for rapier textiles, fertilizer, bicycles and connect have shut down, water and power are luxuries for many villagers, unemployment and neediness are rampant and the literacy even abysmal.

However, the lack of unfolding does not bother the clan of this once pampered seat.

For greatest in number the entry of the heir-apparent of India's oldest political party into the electoral fray gives them a ray of hope

While Gandhi's Italian-born mother Sonia won the seat in 1999 she has vacated it seat in favor of her son this time.

The determine is reminiscent of when her mother-in-law Indira made way for her younger son Sanjay Gandhi to contend for from the adjoining seat of Rae Bareli.

The much-awaited and mostly speculated political launch of a Gandhi representing the fifth generation of the famous political family has one time again raised the issue of dynastic politics.

Critics say political families dumfound the biggest hurdles to the march towards parliamentary democracy. They can give a boost to political organizations in the short flow but erode them in the protracted run.

yet as in the past, the 118-year-old Congres Party headed mainly by a member of the family is formerly again turning to the dynasty to lift its sagging fortunes.

A win for the inexperienced man is assured admit his political repugnants who realize the Nehru-Gandhi name works magic among the local populace.

''We have an emotional attachment with the family. When they be derived here they take care of us, eat with us, give us medical aid and help in our daughters' marriages,'' said Ram Pal Misra, 63

While Gandhi's trips to the family bastion had been rare until now as he pursu his studies and a work at jobs abroad, his sister and mother made oft-repeated visits here to nurse the constituency along.

moreover with the political dynasty disclosed of power for more than 13 years and the Congres Party itself bereft for eight years, there was little the family members could do as members of parliament to pamper the constituency, Congres Party workers said.

Skeptics say the state of Amethi ruminates the state of the Congres Party, which has been in decline since Rajiv Gandhi's death.

His reluctant widow was brought in to infuse life into the declining political force in 1998 unless the party ruled for through the whole extent of four decades since India's independence in 1947 faces bleak fields in the latest parliamentary catalogue of personss according to pre-vote surveys.

While Gandhi has been chosen as the heir-apparent, it was always his younger, more popular and charismatic sister Priyanka who was wait fored to don the political mantle first.