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Rahul Gandhi (L), Congress Party candidate and son of India's opposition leader Sonia Gandhi, sits in a car in Sultanpur near Lucknow after he won by a staggering margin in his family's traditional stronghold in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 13 May 2004. Outgoing Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee offered his resignation to India's President A.P.J. Kalam in New Delhi after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conceded a stunning defeat in parliamentary polls. The Congress Party will stake its claim to form the next government. Its prime ministerial candidate will be party president Sonia Gandhi, who belongs to India's first family of politics. (KEYSTONE/EPA/STR)