Sharif and Gujral reportedly hit it off when they met in the Maldives 14 months ago.
Vajpayee told Sharif that he wasn't aware of any verbal agreements Gujral had made.
This should lead to more investment, on which Mr Gujral bases his hopes for faster growth.
On November 18th, the prime minister, Inder Gujral, said he believed 7% growth was feasible.
If Indians feel they have heard it all before, they are right: the man Gujral replaced, H.
Mr Gujral had to promise on coming to power that he would not go in for witch-hunts.
Gujral's immediate priorities include the ratification of a pro-business budget, which is expected to be passed with little opposition.
Dilbagh Gujral has been banned from trading and promoting stocks by the B.
After all, Yadav is the president of Gujral's own party, the Janata Dal, the largest single party in the Front.
K. Gujral collapsed on Nov. 28 when the Congress party, which provides the Front vital parliamentary support, withdrew its backing.
Shortly after he took office on April 21, Gujral made a pledge.
By contrast, Gujral -- a suave, intellectual urbanite who is the very antithesis of the earthy Yadav -- has no such mass following.
Janata Dal's latest problems reflect the inherent instability of the coalition, which came to power in May last year under Gujral's predecessor, H.
The Tamil Maanila Congress, a constituent of the United Front, had walked out after its leader lost the prime ministerial race to Mr Gujral.
Mr Gujral runs a fragile minority coalition government that depends for survival on the support of the Congress party, which has long ruled India.
Tourism would also profit, since many citizens of both countries (including Mr Gujral) were born and raised in the other and still have relatives there.
Though resident in New Delhi, Gujral was nominated and elected through Bihar, and it was Yadav who marshaled his flock of deputies to vote for him.
Insiders say the two talked about Sharif's insistence that further meetings build on what he had already achieved with Vajpayee's predecessor as prime minister, Inder Kumar Gujral.
Inder Kumar Gujral, is an urbane, upright and self-assured politician.
Without some sort of compromise, Mr Gujral's government will fall.
But his arrogance has now plunged India into yet another political crisis that threatens to unravel the country's fragile, three-month-old coalition government headed by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral.
Any precipitate action by Gujral could cause Yadav and his supporters to break away -- which would deal a severe blow to the government, if not bring it down completely.
Gujral indirectly controls the company--and is underwriting its shares.
The anti-Kesri faction in the party, led by Arjun Singh, a former minister, seized on this to attack not just the Gujral government but, by implication, Mr Kesri (who was on cosy terms with Mr Gujral).
In the latest attack on those involved in Mumbai's film industry , India's rags-to-riches music baron, 41-year-old Gulshan Kumar, was shot dead outside a temple, prompting the prime minister, Inder Gujral, to praise his contribution to the film-music business.
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