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Though Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani is known as a Hindu hard-liner, he now preaches about India's economic vibrancy, not religious nationalism?a reflection of how his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved away from the politics of hate. Still, Advani reverted to type at an election rally this month in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots had torn down a Muslim mosque in 1992 and demanded the restoration of what they said was once a temple to the Hindu god Ram. "We will build a Ram temple at Ayodhya," Advani declared at the rally. "India will...
...While time has left Congress behind, it has blessed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules India through a coalition. If the party that once harnessed revolution now symbolizes an old India of family, inefficiency and stagnation, so what was once a fringe party fascinated by fascism and Hindu legend is coming to represent a new India driven by an emphasis on technology and the dreams of millions of aspiring capitalists. In part, of course, the BJP simply got lucky, assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which...
...they never even visit their own area. Whenever an election approaches, the Indian people are put in the position of trying to choose the lesser of two evils. But in the course of time, the lesser becomes the worst of all. In this pathetic situation, how can the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party claim that "India is shining" and that Indians have never had it so good? Maybe politicians and their houses and cars are shining, but not the poor schoolchildren in remote villages. Let every man and woman in India get a good education, enjoy all fundamental rights...
...Muslim, it only matters if he gets his work done," says Ayub. "And Atal Bihari has done his work." He points out that Vajpayee, who represents Lucknow in India's Parliament, has broadened the city's roads and improved the standard of living. But didn't Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rise to prominence by demanding the construction of a Hindu temple at the site of a mosque in Ayodhya, thereby creating the worst rift between Muslims and Hindus in modern India's history? Ayub acknowledges the BJP's Muslim-baiting past but counters that Vajpayee went to Pakistan...
When India's Hindu-Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took office eight years ago, some Indians wondered if it marked the end of their country as a tolerant, secular, democratic nation. After all, the BJP had come to power on the back of a violent and emotive campaign to destroy the Babri mosque at the sacred Hindu site of Ayodhya, so bringing religion into the very heart of politics. Moreover, the BJP was allied to many extreme Hindu-fundamentalist groups. Indeed, it was founded as the political associate of a neofascist paramilitary organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh...