For a
politician in his seventies who had become the Prime Minister by sheer accident
to have lasted a crises-ridden five-year term was a remarkable achievement.
Consider the circumstances in which Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao came to
the post. Congress President Rajiv Gandhi had not even given him a ticket for
the Lok Sabha elections of 1991, and when the Sriperumbudur tragedy occurred in
the midst of the elections, Rao was at Nagpur, on way to his village in Andhra
Pradesh. Most of his belongings had already gone to Warangal, crates full of
books.
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