To take on Sangh Parivar, Opposition rediscovers the radical Mahatma

Opposition parties mull fielding Mahatma's grandson as their joint presidential candidate

Opposition parties, not just the Congress and socialists but also communists, are rediscovering Mahatma Gandhi.

But their Gandhi is not the sanitised Mahatma - the docile brand ambassador of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Clean India’ Mission.

As the Modi government prepares to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of the father of the nation in 2019, the Opposition plans to resurrect the radical Gandhi.

Their Gandhi is the satyagrahi, a seeker of truth, who fought against the exploitation of Indigo farmers of Champaran and mill workers of Ahmedabad, who spoke inconvenient truths to Hindu upper castes about discrimination of Dalits, who believed