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...Congress Party and its leader, Sonia Gandhi, scored a stunning upset, shutting the mouths of skeptics. But I would not call this a dynastic victory. If you brush back the cobwebs of history, you will see that Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
...Family Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul, are only the latest activists in the dynasty that has dominated the politics of India for more than 50 years [ASIA, May 24]. In 1984, after Indira Gandhi's assassination, Pico Iyer described the family's monarchical succession...
...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, she relented. With her victory, her son Rahul, 33, declared that the family had finally laid its ghosts to rest...
...slain former Prime Minister Rajiv, who was son of the legendary prime minister Indira Gandhi (also assassinated), herself daughter of the country's legendary first prime minister, Jawarahalal Nehru, the father of modern India. As if to highlight the dynastic allure of her party, Sonia had her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka play leading roles in the campaign - she had always made clear that her reluctant sojourn into politics was at best temporary, and it was widely assumed she was simply keeping her late husband's seat warm for one of their children...
...widely viewed as an attempt to avert the total collapse of the Congress Party's fortunes, and prepare the way for one of her children to assume their father's mantle. The Prime Minister's office has suddenly become available, unexpectedly early, long before 33-year-old Rahul, just elected to parliament for the first time, is ready. She may not have anticpated it, but Sonia may now be forced to take the top job herself. Given the difficulty of altering the economic circumstances that ended Vajpayee's tenure, the top job may be harder to hold than...