Article: Politics in India.

At the end of this month India will begin to elect its new Lower House (Lok Sabha) for the 11th five year term. There are pointers to a hung Parliament. Apparently none of the political parties will be able to form the government. Even the 1991 General Election produced a hung Parliament. The Congress (I), the present ruling party over which Prime Minister Narasimha Rao presides, was not comfortably placed in the Lower House. But gradually, by sleight of hand, he converted the minority into a majority and formed a politically stable but morally shaky government which, surviving many no-confidence motions, still continues as testimony to his Machiavellian style of political ...

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