But, the fact is that the last elections, five years ago, gave the world extraordinary phenomenon of an election being won by a woman political leader of Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith, Sonia Gandhi, who then made way for a Sikh, Mohan Singh, to be sworn in as Prime Minister by a Muslim, President Abdul Kalam, in a country 81 percent Hindu.
但是，事实是 五年前的选举， 给予世界一震惊的景象， 选举获胜人是女性政治领袖 意大利裔和天主教信仰者，索尼娅甘地， 国会议员莫汉·辛格则用锡克教徒的方式 来宣誓就任总理， 在印度总统卡拉姆则是一位穆斯林, 而印度教则统治着百分之八十一的国民。