Retired Indian army Major General Dipankar Banerjee, dismisses worries of a potential coup and Indian re-intervention, but says Fonseka may desire to use the latter possibility for political currency.

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Fears that Mr Speight might spill the beans about other backers of the coup may also have played a role.

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His strategic coup may yet be exposed as financial folly.

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Surprisingly, his new cabinet gives important portfolios to Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first prime minister of Indian descent, ousted in a coup in May 2000.

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