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      "date": "2004-07-12",
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      "title": "India's 2004 National Elections",
      "summary": "U.S. relations with India depend largely on India's political leadership. India's 2004 national\nelections ended governance by the center-right coalition headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari\nVajpayee and brought in a new center-left coalition led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. \nFollowing the upset victory for the historically-dominant Indian National Congress Party led by\nSonia Gandhi, Gandhi declined the post of Prime Minister in the new left-leaning United Progressive\nAlliance (UPA) coalition government, instead nominating her party lieutenant, Oxford-educated\neconomist Manmohan Singh, for the job. As Finance Minister from 1991-1996, Singh was the\narchitect of major Indian economic reform and liberalization efforts. On May 22, the\nwidely-esteemed Sikh became India's first-ever non-Hindu Prime Minister. The defeated Bharatiya\nJanata Party now sits in opposition at the national level, led in Parliament by former Deputy Prime\nMinister Lal Advani. A coalition of communist parties supports the UPA, but New Delhi's\neconomic, foreign, and security policies are not expected to be significantly altered. The new\ngovernment has vowed to continue close and positive engagement with the United States in all areas. \nThis report, which will not be updated, provides an overview of the elections, key parties, and U.S.\npolicy interests.",
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