Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: The Congress Party regained power, however, following Rajiv Gandhi's assassination by a Tamil suicide bomber during election campaigns in 1991. Choices: 1. The Congress Party was never able to regain power, even after Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. 2. After Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 during election campaigns, the Congress Party took back power. 3. The Congress Party regained power after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated since there was no opposition to run against them.

3