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Double Vision; Having two leaders at the top has led not to confusion in New Delhi, but a newfound and welcome vibrancy.(Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh lead coalition)(Cover Story)

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| February 28, 2005 | Moreau, Ron; Mazumdar, Sudip | COPYRIGHT 2005 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar

It looked like a formula for disaster. Against all odds, Sonia Gandhi led her Congress party and its 15 coalition partners to victory in India's parliamentary elections last May. Hindu zealots in the defeated Bharatiya Janata Party responded by threatening massive protests against India's first "foreign born" prime minister. To quell the rancor, Gandhi (who is of Italian descent) arranged for her friend and adviser, the technocrat Manmohan Singh, to become prime minister. Yet Gandhi remained Congress party president and became chair of the ruling coalition.

Not surprisingly, many Indians doubted the two-headed ...

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