ah, for nearly 5 months, starting late last year, joel gandy walked more than 3000 kilometers across the country at every stop. gandhi, that he fact to leader of india mean opposition party was welcomed by masses of people along his route. signs of popularity that could have been his undoing. on march 20 could, he was sentenced to 2 years in a defamation case, a gun these conviction and his subsequent disqualification from parliament seemed to have brought about a certain spot of unity among the opposition. after hours on these conviction, 14 political parties petitioned the supreme court, saying that the opposition parties are being selectively targeted by the current regime. although the court rejected the plea, that petition demonstrated a rare moment of unity amongst india's fractious opposition. joseph chateau from the ahmad me party. the drooling party of delhi calls gandhi's conviction a political conviction and persecution. and says that the b to be government has been using every trick in the book a new make india, an opposition, less democracy in a leading on a board that s