Word: bharatiya
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...Lately, all-out war has also become increasingly attractive to India. Vajpayee's limping, pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is only too aware of the restorative powers of a good fight. War talk and fulminations against Muslim militancy have successfully rid India's newspapers of reports of the excesses of the BJP's hard-line supporters in Gujarat, where more than 1,000 Muslims have been killed in a 10-week religious pogrom. Conflict and crisis also allow India to ignore the average Kashmiri's main complaints: the nagging injustice of Indian rule, rigged elections, rampant official corruption...
...hard to resist the charge that this sort of thinking is exactly what the Hindu extremists and their sympathizers in the Bharatiya Janata Party national government are trying to encourage. A central tenet of their Hindu purification campaign has been a breathtakingly hypocritical insistence that Islam is the inherently intolerant and violent faith. The argument falls flat without an AK-47-toting Muslim fanatic to point to. But in Ahmadabad, no one thinks it will be long before they start appearing. All the ingredients are there. State oppression. Poverty and disadvantage fueled by wholesale discrimination. Fertile recruiting grounds...
...protecting her Muslim friend; another mob fatally stabbed a Muslim man for having married a Hindu. "These people always take our women as one of their wives to beget Muslim children," says one activist for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the extreme Hindu movement linked with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...
...worshipped by Hindus. The mobs burned families in their houses, demolished mosques, raped wives and daughters. Community police insist they were powerless, but if history is a guide, many probably stood back approvingly. The government in New Delhi, led by Atal Behari Vajpayee and his staunchly pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), didn't send in the army to cool things down for several hours. By the weekend, more than 300 people had been murdered following the Godhra ambush - most of them Muslims...
...peculiarity of the episode in December 1992 was the collusion between the Congress government in New Delhi and the main opposition party of the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was in the forefront of the movement to destroy the mosque built, it said, where the revered Hindu god Rama was born. The Congress Prime Minister at the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in a modern variation of the Nero legend, slept while the mosque was being destroyed. Even his Cabinet colleagues were not allowed to disturb his sleep, according to numerous statements made by them (after he lost power...