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Article: India: political upheaval doesn't aid industry. (difficult times for production and marketing of tea and coffee)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
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- September 1, 1991
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India: political upheaval doesn't aid industry
The political and social climate of India does not look too bright, particularly after assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister and president of the Congress (I) Party on May 21, 1990. Political murders are neither uncommon nor unknown in India. But the brutal assassination of a young and well loved political leader (47) in the midst of an election process is, to say the least, sad and unfortunate.
Since the last general election in 1989, two governments fell in the course of 18 months and now again 543 million voters are in the process of choosing the next in midterm. Prospects however do not ...