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English[en]
Manmohan Singh became the Prime Minister, after the Congress President Sonia Gandhi (born Antonia Edvige Albina Maino), the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, declined to take the office, in order to defuse the controversy about whether her foreign birth should be considered a disqualification for the Prime Minister's post.
Dutch[nl]
Manmohan Singh van de Congrespartij werd daarna de nieuwe minister-president, nadat Sonia Gandhi, de weduwe van Rajiv Gandhi, de functie van minister-president afwees, om de controverse rond de vraag of haar Italiaanse afkomst een probleem zou opleveren, in de kiem te smoren.