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OVERNIGHT NEW DELHI BECAME A MILITARY FORtress. Even before they began converging on India's capital for a planned antigovernment rally, about 60,000 activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party were whisked into detention. The party's Hindu militants who reached the sealed-off city were confronted by a security force of 60,000. Several flash points erupted as authorities sprayed tear gas at crowds and hauled off an additional 5,000 to sport stadiums. Through it all, the manicured lawns near the presidential palace -- planned rallying point of the militants -- remained pristinely empty...
...Bharatiya Janata Party] wanted to come to power and the easiest way to come to power was through religion," Heptulla said...
...Hindus and Muslims in a nationwide crackdown. Public order has been restored, but the country's political crisis continues to deepen. Within minutes of reconvening, Parliament erupted in chaos as legislators locked horns over Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's dismissal of three state governments ruled by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Rao's move may backfire if citizens demonstrate a preference for the B.J.P. leaders they elected...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...
...Bharatiya Janata Party bears most of the blame for last week's calamity. But Rao also shares some responsibility. He believed repeated assurances from Advani that the mosque would not be damaged. The Prime Minister, a wily parliamentary veteran whose preferred tactics are delay, discussion and compromise, underestimated the ruthlessness of the militants. By the time a screaming mob attacked the mosque with pickaxes, rods and bare hands, no party or government authority seemed able or willing to stop...