The secretary is spending the entire day Monday with Indian government officials, as well as the leader of the ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, and BJP opposition party leader Lal Krishna Advani.

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Even the leaders of the BN-aligned Malaysian Indian Congress party denounced the MP, ostensibly their political ally.

ECONOMIST: Politics in Malaysia

Jaya Partiban, a senator from the Malaysian Indian Congress, the biggest Indian political party, says that the sheltered life of the plantations imbued Indians with a culture of dependence.

ECONOMIST: Malaysia

The power issues spell more trouble for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who heads the Congress Party-led coalition government and was the architect of the 1991 reforms that ended years of Soviet-style economic planning.

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