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rahul gandhi's show of strength is an attempt to reclaim a space for the opposition. rahul convert this roadshow into his victory lap? so one thing that's really come out of the piece by arunoday is the fact that, really, congress hasn't been able to manage the message. but that's certainly not a problem for the ruling bjp party. they've been really successful at it. now, what's really changed the landscape also is just how successful the government has been at getting people on the internet. in fact, we're actually on the lawns of parliament and you can see them just behind me right now. so let's talk aboutjust how important the digitisation of india is. and i want to start with shruti. you're with bbc verify. you do a lot of work looking at these numbers. just what kind of an impact has this digitisation, or getting so many people on the internet, had on the voters? let's start with 2014,| when the bjp first won the election. the internet penetration. or internet subscriber base that india had stood at around 18%. - and in 2015, the government launched the digital i

rahul gandhi's show of strength is an attempt to reclaim a space for the opposition. nd can rahul convert this roadshow into his victory lap? so one thing that's really come out of the piece by arunoday is the fact that, really, congress hasn't been able to manage the message. but that's certainly not a problem for the ruling bjp party. they've been really successful at it. now, what's really changed the landscape also is just how successful the government has been at getting people on the internet. in fact, we're actually on the lawns of parliament and you can see them just behind me right now. so let's talk aboutjust how important the digitisation of india is. and i want to start with shruti. you're with bbc verify. you do a lot of work looking at these numbers. just what kind of an impact has this digitisation, or getting so many people on the internet, had on the voters? let's start with 2014,| when the bjp first won the election. the internet penetration. or internet subscriber base that india had stood at around 18%. - and in 2015, the government launched the dig

for 15 years, rahul gandhi represented this seat. before that, his mother, his father, his uncle. 019. in a shock defeat, the congress party lost to the bjp over here. so can he win them back and away from the noise and away from the noise of the campaign trail i meet 65—year—old shabir khan in the village ofjudge kapoor in a meeting. for generations, his family has voted for the congress. but even staunch loyalists like shabir feel the party is not doing enough. translation: nothing will change i if they don't raise our issues. i rahul gandhi needs to roar like other politicians. he's a good man, but that's not enough. if he speaks with more conviction, it will be good for him, for the party and for us. since india's independence, the congress party dominated the country's political landscape. from 400 seats in parliament in the 1980s, they were down to 52 in the 2019 elections. to counter the bjp's rising popularity, injuly last year, opposition partiesjoined hands to form a united front. if this alliance wins, our country will win. but in less than a year, there are cracks in th

rahul gandhi's show of strength is an attempt to reclaim a space for the opposition. biggest rent rises of the last three years. new data from the property website zoopla show that rents have risen by more than a third in areas such as bolton, wigan and newport, as cities become increasingly unaffordable. our business correspondent marc ashdown has more on the numbers. the bbc teamed up with zoopla, as you say, that property portal, and we asked them to crunch the data to track rent rises over the past three years. so, between 2020 and 2023. they looked at 65 areas, cities, large towns across the whole of the uk. for the areas which have seen the biggest increases, and this graph behind me tells the story. this is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31% there. and these are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. so the usual suspects in there really — manchester, bolton, glasgow, as you'd expect. but an interesting trend, really — six out of these ten are areas sort of close to cities, but not cities. i mean, bradford's a city, obv