A litmus test awaits the Gandhis in their bastion Amethi, which votes on Monday in the fifth of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh assembly election.
Having been loyal to the Congress party and the Gandhi surname for decades, the constituency first gave the family jitters in the 2014 General Election when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and now Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani gave the dynasty's scion Rahul Gandhi a run for his money.
Over the years, the Congress has seen a steady decline from the heydays when it dominated the family pocket borough. In 2007, the party had won three seats of the five assembly seats that make up the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had won one each.
In the 2012 assembly polls, the Congress managed to win just two of the five seats. Subsequently, one of its legislators moved to the BSP, leaving it with just one MLA from the party stronghold. The SP had won three seats in 2012 and had come second in the remaining two.
The electoral matrix this time is even tougher, despite an alliance with Uttar Pradesh's ruling SP.