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...organizes V chariot processions across India converging on Ayodhya. Lal Krishna Advani, head of the party, leads the biggest: a five-week march during which devotees attack Muslims, killing hundreds...
...active members, during the coming elections. RSS members are expected to campaign for the BJP and to take over some party jobs, freeing BJP officials to concentrate on electioneering. Some observers think Hindu right-wing groups such as the RSS would prefer to see Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani lead the BJP?but realize that his reputation as a Hindu hard-liner makes him unacceptable to moderate voters. Says the Hindu's Khare: "Given a choice, the RSS would rather see the back of Vajpayee. But they know the alternative to Vajpayee is to allow an Italian-born, Roman...
...claimed to represent an unnamed foreign mining company, has yet to be identified.) Instead of banishing Judeo, the BJP bigwigs said he would still lead the party's campaign for Dec. 1 polls in the state of Chhattisgarh in central India. Defending Judeo, BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani took defiance to daring new levels, declaring he once campaigned while facing charges of receiving $140,000 from the hawala system, an informal and illegal paperless banking network, and it hadn't done him any harm. He won the elections. "We stand on a high moral pedestal," proclaimed Advani...
...Advani's political rhetoric might be suspect, but his calculation to stand by Judeo is probably sound. Keeping Judeo means preserving his sizable caste-determined Chhattisgarh voter bloc. Besides, observers say voters simply don't care about another ministerial scandal when they already view all politicians as thieves. Citizens' daily routines involve such a catalog of bribes that official corruption has ceased to be controversial. "Corruption is part and parcel of Indian politics and Indian life," says V.B. Singh, an analyst for the New Delhi-based Center for Study of Developing Societies. "People expect politicians to steal. They...
...prominent opposition leader and five women were elected for the first time. A Separate Peace? INDIA Setting aside the issue of Kashmir from its other differences with Pakistan, India proposed a 12-point plan - including restoring cricket matches - to improve relations between the two countries. Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani agreed to a long-standing demand from Kashmiri separatists to talk directly with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of political, social and religious groups. Pakistan said it was pleased with the peace moves, but disappointed that no summit-level talks were offered...