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Article: Sonia Gandhi easily wins back parliament seat
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- May 12, 2006
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Indian Communists were set on to sweep two of five state assembly
elections as votes were counted yesterday, while the chief of the
ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, easily won a parliamentary by-
election.
Congress did not have much else to cheer about in the mammoth
state polls, its biggest electoral test since coming to power two
years ago. Although an ally was winning in a southern state and it
won the tiny state of Pondicherry, Congress was struggling to retain
its majority in the northeastern state of Assam. Losing the southern
state of Kerala to the left was considered a blow.
The state vote, however, was not being seen as a referendum on
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two years ...