Anxious Congress ponders early polls to cut the lossses

Worried about the electoral consequences of an economic meltdown next year, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is seriously contemplating an election by the end of this year. The calculation is that Congress is still in a position to win about 135 Lok Sabha seats and therefore can support a non-BJP government on the lines of the Deve Gowda and I.K. Gujral model in 1996 and 1997.

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