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Article: Indian Government Falls After 13 Days in Power
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- The Washington Post
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- May 29, 1996
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India's first Hindu nationalist government collapsed today after
just 13 days in power, as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
resigned rather than face a vote of confidence in Parliament that
his party was sure to lose.
President Shankar Sharma quickly nominated as Vajpayee's
successor H.D. Deve Gowda, leader of a multi-party alliance of
leftist and regional parties that acquired a name, the United Front,
just last week. Gowda is to take office Saturday and faces a June 12
deadline to prove his alliance can forge a majority in Parliament.
The political instability in the world's largest democracy --
one government ousted, another anointed in a matter of hours --
flowed from the ...