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P Chidambaram, India's Finance Minister, on Saturday said that it is unlikely that the 2014 Lok Sabha elections will throw up a government with "solid majority". Chidambaram was speaking at a panel discussion organized by the NSE to mark its 20th anniversary. The minister felt that if the general polls gives a majority government then it would be an opportunity to overcome the weaknesses that has plagued the system.

General elections in India are scheduled for May 2014. In the recently concluded November assembly elections Congress, which leads the centre's UPA government, was completed routed in four states – Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

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