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<text id=91TT1247>
<title>
June 10, 1991: World Notes:India
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
INDIA
In Search of Stability
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<p> With no family scion available to take up the mantle of Rajiv
Gandhi, India's Congress Party last week did what any other
faction-riven political bureaucracy would have done: fudge.
After a two-hour meeting, party leaders appointed P.V.
Narasimha Rao, 69, as president. Although Rao boasts an
impressive resume--he is a poet, linguist and former Foreign
Minister--he was selected because, according to colleagues,
he is respected by everyone but feared by no one.
</p>
<p> The compromise choice postpones what is expected to be a
fierce fight among younger politicians for the prize of Prime
Minister. That job will be filled by the party's members of
parliament after national elections, which were interrupted by
Gandhi's murder, are completed next week. If Congress does not
win at the polls, party strategists hope to team up with smaller
factions on the left to deny power to the rising and divisive
Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
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