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Hindu nationalist protestors marching with loudspeaker mounted on truck2. Anti-Sonia Gandhi posters3. Protestors holding banners, chanting, marchingNew Delhi, May 184. Exterior...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e(First Run 0800 GMT Europe Morning)\u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, May 18\u003cbr/\u003e1. Hindu nationalist protestors marching with loudspeaker mounted on truck\u003cbr/\u003e2. Anti-Sonia Gandhi posters\u003cbr/\u003e3. Protestors holding banners, chanting, marching\u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, May 18\u003cbr/\u003e4. Exterior President House\u003cbr/\u003e5. Car coming to a halt, Gandhi and Manmohan Singh (rumoured to be next Indian prime minister) getting out of car and walking towards cameras\u003cbr/\u003e6. Security\u003cbr/\u003e(First Run 1700 GMT Europe Evening)\u003cbr/\u003e7. Sonia Gandhi entering Congress parliamentary party meeting\u003cbr/\u003e8. Gandhi's son - newly elected Parliament member Rahul Gandhi - and her daughter Priyanka Vadra - enter room, walk past camera \u003cbr/\u003e9. Singh seated\u003cbr/\u003e10. Parliamentarians shouting for Gandhi not to resign\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonia Gandhi, Congress Party Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"One thing has always been clear to me, and that is, as I have often stated that the the post of prime minister has not been my aim.  I was always certain that if ever I found myself in the position that I am in today, I would follow my inner voice.  Today, that voice tells me I must humbly decline this post.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e12. Pull out from Gandhi to wide of parliamentarians erupting in protest\u003cbr/\u003e13. Exteriors - Congress party flags\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan over chanting protestors\u003cbr/\u003e15. UPSOUND: (Hindi) Protestors chanting 'bring Sonia, save the country'\u003cbr/\u003e16. Protesters throwing themselves on ground, chanting\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of protestors burning BJP flag\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of Congress supporter standing on vehicle with gun pointed towards his head\u003cbr/\u003e19. Demonstrator in a tree and police trying to bring him down\u003cbr/\u003e20. Protestors outside house being held back by fence\u003cbr/\u003e21. Set-up of news conference by Communist leader Somnath Chatterjee\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English): Somnath Chatterjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist): \u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course, we have to accept the prime minister because it will be the Congress party's decision.  If initially Congress party had selected somebody else, we would have accepted ... there is no question.  It was not a condition precedent, that Sonia Gandhi must be the prime minister. It is their internal matter... some sort of rumour is there that her children are against ... her children are against - son and daughter, probably they are afraid of ( for ) her life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Sign indicating Singh residence \u003cbr/\u003e24. Security outside Singh house\u003cbr/\u003e25. Man holding a bunch of roses outside Singh's house \u003cbr/\u003e(First Run 1830 GMT N.America) \u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, May 17, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e26. Various of Singh giving interview \u003cbr/\u003e(First Run 1700 GMT Europe Evening)\u003cbr/\u003eSrinagar, Jammu-Kashmir, May 17\u003cbr/\u003e27. Houseboats along Dal Lake\u003cbr/\u003e28. Traffic and people on street\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Maulana Abbas Ansari, Chairman, All party Hurriyat Conference: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Change in the regime does not mean change in the situation ...and it is necessary that the dialogue initiated by Vajpayee is carried forward...we hope for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Traffic and people on street\u003cbr/\u003eSonia Gandhi has refused to be India's next prime minister, a decision that stunned her supporters and followed an unprecedented stock market crash as well as Hindu nationalist outrage over the prospect of a foreign-born woman leading the nation of one (b) billion people.\u003cbr/\u003eGandhi, an Italian who became an Indian citizen 21 years ago, did not say on Tuesday who she would nominate for the post, but the favourite appeared to be Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic liberalisation programme during the last Congress-led government from 1991 to 1996.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking to members of her Congress party in the central hall of Parliament she said \"the post of prime minister has not been my aim. I was always certain that if ever I found myself in the position I am in today, I would follow my inner voice\". \u003cbr/\u003eShe added that her inner voice had told her on Tuesday to \"humbly decline the post\".\u003cbr/\u003eHer Congress party and its allies trounced the Hindu-nationalist party of caretaker Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Democratic National Alliance in national elections that ended last week. \u003cbr/\u003eThe new Congress lawmakers shouted and pleaded with Gandhi to change her mind.  \u003cbr/\u003eShe had to stop several times to get the audience to quiet down before imploring them not to ask her to reconsider.  She said \"I request you to accept my decision\", as she would not reverse it.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier in the day, Gandhi met with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam but did not, as widely expected, leave with his approval to form a minority government that would be dependent on the outside support of two communist parties - a prospect that spooked investors.\u003cbr/\u003eMembers of Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have demonstrated against the possibility of a foreign-born prime minister.  They had pledged to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of Gandhi if she were named leader.\u003cbr/\u003eHad she accepted the position, she would have been the fourth member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to be prime minister.\u003cbr/\u003eCommunist Party of India-Marxist party member, Somnath Chatterjee, said rumours were rife that Gandhi's children did not want her to take the post.\u003cbr/\u003eGandhi's husband and mother-in-law were past prime ministers who were both assassinated.  Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber in 1991 and Indira Gandhi was shot to death by her own bodyguards in 1984.\u003cbr/\u003eOutside Gandhi's house, about one-thousand supporters and newly elected lawmakers held a rally before her announcement on Tuesday, beating drums and waving flags and posters.\u003cbr/\u003eOne Congress party worker jumped on top of a car and pointed a gun to his head for several minutes, slashing with the stick at people trying to get him down.  He was later pulled down and disarmed.\u003cbr/\u003eMeantime, security was beefed up outside that home of Manmohan Singh, and one supporter appeared bearing a bunch of roses.\u003cbr/\u003eInvestors feared that had Gandhi become prime minister, leftists could block key reforms such as the privatisation of state-run companies.  That sent markets plummeting on Monday, when the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex, had the biggest drop ever in its 129-year history.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Sensex rose again on Tuesday on news that Singh could be the new Congress candidate for prime minister. \u003cbr/\u003eMany believe he would be able to strike a balance between demands for leftists and policies that benefit businesses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Congress party and its allies did not win an outright majority in Parliament in the six-week elections, but communist parties - with 62 seats in the 545-member parliament - said they would support Gandhi's bid to become prime minister but not join her government.\u003cbr/\u003eGandhi needed the leftist parties because even with the announced backing on Monday of the socialist Samajwadi Party, the Congress would have only 257 seats, short of the 272 it needs for a majority in the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv 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