India Braces for Elections
India's Congress-led government, beset with a sputtering economy, a prime minister just out of heart surgery and tensions surrounding the November massacre of 160 persons in Mumbai by Islamic extremists, faces the unappetizing prospect of elections sometime in April or May for the 552 seats in the 15th Lok Sabha, the lower House of Parliament.
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