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...widely predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the "Enlightened Hindu Nationalist" party, will gain the most seats of any single party, but not enough to form its own government. The conglomerate of left-leaning parties called the United Front--which headed the latest government under the ambivalent auspices of the India National Congress Party, the party that has ruled the government for all but five of the past 50 years--is expected to get about half the number of seats as the BJP, or about 20 percent. Congress will garner enough seats to control an unstable, anti-BJP coalition...
Almost every other party in the country is lining up to defeat Vajpayee in the confidence vote and topple his government. The phalanx of opposition arises because Vajpayee, though a moderate, heads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which pursues such hard-line policies as abolishing special constitutional provisions for Muslims and other minorities, making India a declared nuclear-weapons state and taking a tougher line against separatists in Kashmir. Most Indians remember that it was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades...
...DELHI: The national election in India is almost over, but the politicking has only just started. Despite winning the majority of seats in parliament, control of the government is not assured for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Monday a leftist coalition called the National Front moved to keep the BJP from power, and gained an endorsement from the Congress Party. The soundly defeated Congress Party offered support to the Front, a loose coalition of socialist, communist and low-caste parties, but has yet to actually join up. With 530 of the 537 parliamentary seats accounted...
...CANDIDATES] P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...
...Vaishali, an electoral district in the violence-prone Bihar state, where a federal by-election was held last month. By seeking to revoke the election, Seshan forced both Congress and opposition candidates to abide by election rules on spending limits. Admits Atal Behari Vajpayee, a legislator of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party: "He put the fear of God into politicians." In the end, the by-election was held peacefully, and the candidate of a small local party was declared the winner...