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‘Inner voice’ leads Sonia away from PM chair
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040519/asp/frontpage/story_3265702.asp
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Whose inner voice?
Did Sonia Gandhi step down from the race to be Prime Minister because her
"inner voice" suddenly told her to do so? Why did this "voice" speak now,
despite her being elected Congress Parliamentary Party leader and after
obtaining letters of support from all allied parties?
Apparently, it was not the "inner voice" but certain queries that could have
been put to her by the President of India, custodian of the Constitution,
which caused her to withdraw her name.
Contrary to attempts by Congressmen and Communists to portray her
eleventh-hour retreat as a "personal decision" spurred by her children, it
could be the clarifications apparently sought by President A P J Abdul Kalam
that resulted in the rethink. The President, it is reliably learnt, did not
outrightly reject her candidature for the post of the Prime Minister.
However, he is believed to have sought certain clarifications on a few points
regarding the precise status of her Indian citizenship. In doing so, he may
have referred to some pointed queries referred to him by legal luminaries who
met him since the declaration of the Lok Sabha election results.
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article may now be available in the
Daily Pioneer archive of May 18, 2004)
Whose inner voice?
Pioneer News Service/ New Delhi |
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