Word: advani
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...legend of the god-king Rama set new lows for wooden acting and dismal special effects?and surprised everyone when it became a smash. Modi, by then a BJP press officer, wasn't the only one who noticed. Party leaders Vajpayee and his hard-line No. 2 Lal Krishna Advani (now Deputy Prime Minister) saw an opportunity to put on a show of their own. They took one myth, that Rama had been born on the site of a once glorious temple at Ayodhya in northern India, and turned it into a rallying cry for all Hindu patriots...
...still clouds the picture of the country's enemies and leaves the door open to additional attacks, and potential retaliation. Furthermore, it puts Vajpayee in an increasingly tight spot between the international community and the hard-core elements of his own party, which includes his newly promoted deputy, L.K. Advani...
...three security officials in the Akshardham temple complex in Gandhinaghar, capital of Gujarat - the western state where nearly 2,000 people, mostly Muslim, died in sectarian rioting in February and March. The Indian army sent 3,000 troops to Gujarat to keep the peace. Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishnan Advani visited the temple and blamed Pakistan for the attack. PAKISTAN Grudge Match? In a gangland-style execution, gunmen killed seven Pakistani Christians and left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied...
...home on Aug. 25 and escaping the scene by hitching a ride in a bus. Authorities are desperate to avoid a repeat of his last score, when he made off with $6 million in ransom after kidnapping Indian film star Rajkumar. India's Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani has pledged troops and weapons from the central government, saying the Nagappa abduction would be 'the last chapter in Veerappan's long history of crime.' Last Thursday, Veerappan demanded the release of Kolathur Mani, a political extremist with strong ties to the Tamil Tigers, to head negotiations for Nagappa's release...
...wake of the violence. (89.5% of the state's population is Hindu and just 8.5% Muslim.) That provoked an uproar in New Delhi's Parliament last week, as the opposition accused the ruling party of backing Modi, the leader of the Gujarat BJP. But Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani did not relent. "You abuse a Chief Minister day in and day out and then expect him not to go to the people?" he argued. "The Chief Minister needs a certificate of the people of Gujarat and he will get that." No doubt, analysts say. "The Hindu chauvinist government is looking...