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...rare press conference last month in Srinagar, the Prime Minister tottered to the podium?Indian TV crews are asked to film him from the waist up to avoid showing his shuffling gait?to find he had trouble understanding questions, repeatedly relying on whispered prompts from Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even then Vajpayee stumbled over his replies. "He is very alert when he is functional," says one BJP worker. "But there are very few hours like that." Adds one Western diplomat: "We have a lot of conversations about his health. Some of his mannerisms come down to his personal style...
...questions that key decisions on national security and foreign policy are still made by Vajpayee, the focus is now turning to the two men behind the throne: Vajpayee's low-key National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra, and Vajpayee's hard-line BJP colleague of 50 years, 72-year-old Advani. The consensus among observers and diplomats is that the hawkish Advani is preparing to succeed Vajpayee at the next national elections due by late 2004. "There is no doubt he is the Prime Minister in waiting," remarks a diplomat...
...years after independence, it started a rambunctious campaign to build a temple on the mosque's site. The campaign captured public imagination and the BJP did well in the general election of 1991. In 1992, it brought its masses to the mosque once again. As BJP leaders, including L.K. Advani, now the country's Home Minister, watched - professing to be shocked - trained kar sevaks (holy volunteers) broke down the mosque with iron rods and sledgehammers. That set off riots by Muslims across India, particularly in Bombay, its commercial capital. As usual, the Hindus followed. A month later in Bombay, three...
...telling the Hindus to cool it or real war would break out. The Hindus relented, but voted increasingly for the BJP. The party took power for 13 days in 1996 in a doomed coalition. After elections in 1998, it cobbled together a stronger alliance, which insisted that hard-line Advani - legally charged with being responsible for the mosque's destruction - be replaced with the more moderate Vajpayee as the prime ministerial candidate. Relations between Hindus and Muslims since the Bombay blasts have been calm, if not happy: neither group wanted to go back to the warfare...
...post-Sept. 11 world. It means you are harboring terrorists, just as the Taliban harbored al-Qaeda. "America must ensure that those who are part of the war on terrorism are themselves not guilty of providing a safe haven to terrorists," proclaims hard-line Indian Home Minister L.K. Advani, referring to Pakistan...