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Congress supporters regard the Gandhi family as India's monarchy. They had expected a coronation, not an abdication. But the fairytale of Sonia Gandhi ended before it had even begun.
Her Italian ancestry became a more important factor than the legacy of India's first political family, and she decided that she could not bear the responsibility.
Her announcement that she was stepping down as the Congress party's prime ministerial candidate prompted protests outside the Gandhis' colonial bungalow in Delhi.
Thousands of Congress workers thronged the street, burning effigies of Hindu nationalist leaders and writing notes in blood asking her to reconsider.
Armed commandos surrounded the house to prevent the anger growing out of control. One former MP held a revolver to his head, threatening to commit suicide, before being overpowered by police officers.
"We don't know what to do," Salman Khurshid, a Congress MP close to the Gandhi family, to Short biography sample!