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...mother Indira's favorite and had been viewed as her heir apparent until his sudden death in a plane crash in 1980. Sanjay's widow Maneka is now Sonia Gandhi's implacable enemy. Maneka and her son Varun are now members of the Hindu nationalist organization, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the most ferocious rival of Congress as well as Nehru's secularist tenets. (See pictures of the tempestuous Nehru dynasty of India...
...chief advisor - ran the country on authoritarian lines, ruling by decree. One of those edicts led to forced sterilization to deal with India's then huge population growth rate. Varun Gandhi allegedly referred to it in his virulent rallies in the first week of March by saying that the BJP "need to pick them [Muslims] up, one by one, and sterilize them...
...some also blame the ruling Congress Party for playing politics with sport. IPL chairman Lalit Modi is known to be close to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Some BJP leaders have pointed out that states where the Congress or its allies are in power were the ones that denied security for IPL matches. "Cricket could have done without such politicization," says New Delhi-based cricket commentator G. Rajaraman, who holds Congress responsible. "Only Congress-ruled states said they could not provide security," he says, citing the examples of Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. "Only one match would be played...
...facts may never be uncovered, and certainly never released to the public. Faced with an election in May, the Indian National Congress, currently in power, will never attribute the deed to Indians, be they anti-modern Indian Muslims in a global terror network, or Hindu extremists funded by BJP. They will continue to blame rogue Pakistani nationals, but not the Pakistani state. Even if the assassins weren’t really rogue Pakistani Muslims, public discourse will remain framed in terms of Indian-Pakistani security relations. By blaming rogue extremists, the usual suspects, they limit talk of both global fundamentalist...
...Even if the BJP and a coalition win the election in May, they will be hard pressed to find multilateral support for military intervention. The United Nations and most developed states will not support a repeat of Bush-like bellicosity, especially when it involves Saudi-financed Pakistan. In any case, China will most certainly block a Security Council vote to invade its closest partner in the region. And India is unlikely to go it alone with the risk of nuclear...