In pursuit of sympathy. (with Rajiv Gandhi's death India's Congress Party may be forced to relinquish its half-century grip on power)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 1, 1991 | Copyright information

RAJIV GANDHI'S ashes were divided AX into 35 lots. His widow and children took two urns to Allahabad, where the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers join. His son Rahul scattered them on the water, then turned to his mother, weeping. One urn was emptied from an aircraft over the Himalayas. The other 32 were squabbled over by Congress Party politicians, then carried off to india's states to be used in a desperate attempt to collect the sympathy vote".

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