Massive WIn for the Congress Party in India - here comes another Gandhi

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5335514/Rahul-Gandhi-is-hero-of-Congress-Party-after-its-convincing-Indian-election-victory.html
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The victory is expected to hand Congress and its closest allies 258 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament. With the figure only just short of an overall majority, it was the party's best result since 1991.

Its triumph was confirmed when the opposition Hindu nationalist BJP and the rival Communist-controlled Third Front both conceded they had not only lost but had been taken aback by the scale of their defeat. With 80 per cent of the vote counted, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was leading in just 162 of the country's 543 seats.

Mr Gandhi, 38, has been carefully groomed for his party's leadership with the expectation that he will eventually follow in the footsteps of his father Rajiv, his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his great-grandfather Jawarharlal Nehru as prime minister.

But despite intense pressure from her party, Sonia Gandhi has steadfastly refused to be hurried over her son's political career. Close family friends and supporters believe he needs cabinet experience before he is ready to step up to India's most powerful office.
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Give thanks the Fundamentalist BJP lost.