PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2004 - Gangacharan Rajput, a Congress party worker, threatens to shoot himself if Sonia Gandhi backed out of becoming India’s prime minister, outside the party’s headquarters in New Delhi May 18, 2004. Police later disarmed the man. Italian-born Gandhi sought on Tuesday to back out from leading the country in a bid to end debate over her foreign birth and bring more allies into the new government, party officials said. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore