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Article: Party: Sonia Gandhi will be prime minister if Congress wins
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- May 13, 2004
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AP Worldstream
05-13-2004
Dateline: NEW DELHI
Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of a former prime minister, will take that position herself if her opposition Congress party puts together a ruling coalition, a top party official said Thursday.
"She will be the prime minister _ hundred percent. For stability it is necessary that the prime minister be from the single largest party, that is the Congress party and our candidate is Sonia Gandhi," Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress general secretary, said after meeting with Gandhi.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Hindu-nationalist-led coalition sought ...