In November 1990, after the fall of the V. P. Singh government, President Venkataraman had asked Rajiv if he would like to stake his claim, as leader of the single largest group in Parliament, to form the government. Rajiv had declined, assuring the president that the Congress would ensure political stability by supporting the Chandra Shekhar government at least for a year. The government of the day had several crises to deal with—the Mandal agitation for expanding the scope of reservations, the Mandir agitation aimed at building a temple for Lord Rama in Ayodhya, the insurgency in the
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Rjeevji refusel to form government in 1990 when india faced crisis
