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

More likely the central government in Delhi, run by the Congress party, is shy of Indian nationalists, who complain whenever concessions are considered for Kashmir.

ECONOMIST: Kashmir's troubles