Скачать или смотреть VOICER Sonia Gandhi's Congress defeats ruling party

(13 May 2004) VOICED BY LOUISE BATES



Delhi - May 13, 2004
0000 Congress Party supporters dancing in front of Congress Party office and Sonia Gandhi's residence
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0008 Supporters throwing firecrackers and dancing
0015 Sonia Gandhi walking out of residence
0020 Gandhi walking to table
0027 Various Sonia Gandhi posing on table in front of photographers

Pohkran, Rajasthan - May 20, 1998
0032 Various of Vajpayee visiting site of the nuclear test

Wagah border, Punjab - February 20, 1999
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0044 Vajpayee sitting in bus, waving as bus crosses border to enter Pakistan

Bombay - May 13, 2004
0051 Low-angle exterior of Bombay Stock Exchange
0055 Various of stockbrokers inside trading room

New Delhi - May 13, 2004
0104 Congress supporters dancing and celebrating
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India's ruling Hindu nationalist party and prime minister Atal Vajpayee conceded defeat in general elections on Thursday.

Italian-born Sonia Gandhi could now become the country's first foreign-born leader.

The restoration to power of the Gandhi family dynasty is a dramatic election upset.

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Congress party supporters danced for joy as unofficial results showed Sonia Gandhi's bloc was ahead of the governing alliance.

UPSOUND Crackers

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And firecrackers sounded the start of a new political era.

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Sonia Gandhi is waiting until Saturday to say whether as party leader she'll be India's next prime minister.

She may have been born in Italy, but she belongs to an Indian political dynasty that began at Independence.

Her husband, and his mother and grandfather were all prime ministers.

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It's a massive defeat for Atal Vajpayee. During his six years as prime minister, he transformed India into a military power.

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At the same time his overtures towards Pakistan, including reinstating bus services across the border, brought about real chances of peace, which could yet be his lasting legacy.

Economically too, India's prospered in recent years.

Indications are that prosperity will continue.

Markets so far are grateful there won't be the shaky coalition many had feared would come to power.

Instead Congress gains mean a strong one-party government.

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