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STUNNING POLITICAL SACRIFICE
THERE WILL BE enormous sympathy and respect for Sonia Gandhi's decision to turn down the Prime Ministership of a country of one billion people after leading her party to a position of advantage that was least expected during the run-up to the ...

POWER OF DEMOCRACY
THE TAMIL NADU Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, appears to have drawn the right lessons from the rout of her party, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election. Within a week of the declaration of the ...

Leader Page Articles
Government formation and after
By K.K. Katyal

The new rulers will need to muster all the tact and ingenuity at their command to ensure the smooth functioning of the government they are going to put together.

Centre-State financial ties
By Abhijit Sen

The new government should indicate immediately its position on the two issues that have virtually bankrupted all State Governments: the impact of Pay Commission awards and the overhang of high-cost debt.

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Salute to Sonia
By Harish Khare

Over the last three years I have used this space to make a critical appraisal of the pluses and minuses of your leadership. I have been forthrightly expressing the view that as long as you remained the prime ministerial aspirant, the Congress was ...

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