NUCLEAR INDUSTRY-Desperate Measure

Survival Strategies THE shock and sorrow that the people might have felt at Rajiv Gandhi's tragic end were allowed to dissipate within less, than 24 hours into a ludicrous anti-climax by his colleagues in the Congress Working Committee when in a desperate search for his successor as the party president, they fell back on Sonia Gandhi. The unseemly haste in which Congress(I) veterans with years of political experience behind them chose to elect as their leader someone who is not even a debutante in Indian politics leaves us with the only surmise that is possible in such circumstances