Word: gandhis
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...Your report on the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi's victory presented one of the best analyses yet of Indian politics. But I want to make it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but under the constraints of governing coalitions, it has taken a more secular stance. The 2002 Gujarat riots, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed, were indeed a blot, but India remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President...
...always certain that if I ever found myself in the position that I am in today, I would follow my inner voice. Today that voice tells me I must humbly decline this post." SONIA GANDHI, leader of India's Congress Party, who was elected Prime Minister but decided not to accept the job, which will go to another party member, Manmohan Singh, a Sikh...
...president—at least not from prominent politicians. But then, not every country can have such drama-packed politics as India. First the incumbent prime minister and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party were trounced by India’s Congress party, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born wife and daughter-in-law of two former prime ministers. Then Gandhi declared that she would decline the post she had just won, prompting members of her party to descend on her home in droves, some of them writing letters in their own blood urging her to change...
Nonetheless, Gandhi stuck by her decision and, as a result, a rather promising leader has been catapulted to India’s helm in her place, Manmohan Singh, an Oxford-educated economist. This shake-up could prove historic for India and provide America with a chance to turn over a new leaf in our behavior toward the nation, which has been less than considerate lately...
...victory crowns a remarkable odyssey. Born near Turin, Sonia Maino was 18 when she met Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering...