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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: India's Congress prepares for government AFP - Monday, May 18 NEW DELHI (AFP) - - India's Congress Party began the task of cobbling together a government Sunday after steering its ruling alliance to a second term in office with a resounding win over its Hindu nationalist rivals. ADVERTISEMENT Senior alliance leaders met to formulate strategy and to choose which parties it might approach about securing a parliamentary majority, having fallen just a whisker short of the required 272 seat majority. Party spokesman Janardhan Dwivedi told AFP that getting the handful of extra seats was "not an issue for the Congress ," with a plethora of smaller parties willing to team up. With all results counted, India's election commission said the Congress alliance had won 261 seats, with the party's individual tally at 206 -- its best performance since 1991. The main opposition grouping led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had bagged a mere 159 seats. India has become used to unwieldy coalition governments which expend an inordinate amount of energy on simply staying together and not enough, critics say, on the job of policy implementation. In the process the Congress alliance trounced the BJP-led opposition grouping. It also saw off its erstwhile communist partners, who had abandoned the ruling coalition last year in protest over a nuclear deal with the United States. The communists won 22 seats -- a disastrous showing for the once-powerful party. "The people have rejected both extremes -- the left and the right," said Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a political analyst and author of a book on Indian coalition politics. The victory means a second term for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , 76, whose calm, pragmatic persona appealed to voters looking for political stability. "The new government is assuming office in the backdrop of a deep global recession and serious troubles in the immediate neighbourhood," spokesman Dwivedi quoted the premier as saying at the Congress leadership meet. "He was confident the clear mandate will enable the new government to respond to these two immediate challenges effectively," the official added. After five successive years of near double-digit growth that lent the country the international clout it has long sought, the Indian economy has been hit by the global downturn. And there are security concerns over instability in South Asia, particularly in arch-rival Pakistan, with whom relations plunged to a low following last year's bloody militant attack on Mumbai. The media voiced a sense of public relief that the election verdict had been so clear cut. "Finally, a Free Hand," was the headline of the Economic Times, which hailed what it saw as a landmark result. "The people have spoken and spoken decisively: voting out confusion, voting in clarity, voting out schism, voting in development," the daily said. "2009 may just be the beginning of India's century -- a year when India dumps its old baggage and looks to the future with humility, unity and hope," it added. Some other newspapers focused on the contribution made to the Congress victory by Rahul Gandhi, the son of party president Sonia Gandhi and many people's choice to succeed premier Singh. Gandhi, 38, was widely credited with energising the party and bringing out the all-important youth vote. "Ra-Ra Rahul" ran the headline in the Mail Today, while the Economic Times celebrated the "new face of Congress" and chose an image of Rahul for its front page rather than his mother or Singh. There is speculation that Singh might step down after two years to allow Rahul to follow his father Rajiv Gandhi, his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his great-grandfather Jawarhalal Nehru into the prime minister's office. 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