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Article: An Indian rope trick. (India's Congress political party)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 2, 1989
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An Indian rope trick
RAJIV GANDHI is far from finished. He is no longer India's prime minister, but he remains head of the Congress party, despite its humiliation in the election that ended on Sunday. On Wednesday night the party's members of the new parliament unanimously re-elected him as their leader, thumping their tables and cheering as they did so. They are not yet ready to dispose of the remanants of the Gandhi magic that has helped to keep them in power for so many years. Many are confident that before long they will be running things again.
Well, perhaps. Congress was decisively beaten. With a few results still to come in, it seemed at ...