Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, left, looks on as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, talks to the media after meeting the Indian President Pratibha Patil to stake claim to form the next government, at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Singh, who earlier vowed that his second term would make security and promoting Hindu-Muslim tolerance a priority, while continuing its focus on raising the economic prospects of the country's millions of poor, will be sworn in on Friday, he said. AP Photo logo AP Photo 6 months ago

Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, left, looks on as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, talks to the media after meeting the Indian President Pratibha Patil to stake claim to form the next government, at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Singh, who earlier vowed that his second term would make security and promoting Hindu-Muslim tolerance a priority, while continuing its focus on raising the economic prospects of the country's millions of poor, will be sworn in on Friday, he said.

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  3. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, listen as Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, unseen, speaks at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
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  5. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives for a press conference in Mumbai on October 11, 2009. India hinted that a suicide attack on its embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul last week was staged by Pakistani militants who oppose its support of President Hamid Karzai's government. Singh, campaigning in Mumbai ahead of local elections, told reporters October 11 that 'Pakistan should realise the great harm that patronisation of terrorist groups has done to South Asia.'
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  7. (From R - L) Chief of India's ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dixit wave flags during the flag-off ceremony of the Red-Ribbon Express train to mark the World AIDS Day in New Delhi December 1, 2009. The train will travel across the country that will halt in 152 stations to spread awareness on AIDS.
  8. Leader of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party L.K. Advani, left, Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, center, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pose before a portrait of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, top center, on the first day of the winter session of the Indian Parliament, which coincided with the birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
  9. Leader of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party L.K. Advani, left, speaks to Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, center, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looks on, on the first day of the winter session of the Indian Parliament, that coincided with the birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
  10. India's ruling Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, center, offers tributes at the memorial of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on her birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Indira Gandhi, the country's first and only woman prime minister, was shot to death in 1984 by her own bodyguards. Seen to her left is Sonia's son and Indira's grandson Rahul Gandhi.
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  12. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets Indian government coalition chairman Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on November 17, 2009. Harper on November 16 began a two-day visit to India, calling for stronger and improved ties with his nation, particularly on trade.
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