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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today denied having supported Sonia Gandhi's candidature for Prime Ministership and yet again reiterated that Sonia Gandhi, being a foreigner, would never be acceptable to her as the prime minister of the country. Seeking to explain her letter of support to the Congress she sent to the President in 1999 general elections, she said she was not extending her support to a government ''to be formed by Sonia Gandhi'' but merely to a government to be formed by the Congress led by her. ''Support to any of the groups by a political party cannot be read as being synonymous with accepting the leader ...

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