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...appearance of change without concrete results may not be enough. Yashwant Deshmukh, who runs the independent polling firm Team Cvoter in New Delhi, says that the one thing that young voters have in common is their pragmatism. They look for what he calls "visible development" - a tangible sign of effectiveness - and will reward it at the polls. That was the powerful lesson of local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft...
...Truly addressing the needs of India's young people will, of course, require more than just one election. Shekhar Deshmukh, a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation fellow who is studying patterns of migration to the cities, says that he has noticed a hopeful change among young people, even in the poorest villages and urban slums: they question why their lives are as they are. "In this generation they are expressing their views very openly," he says. "Maybe in the next generation they will act. But it will take time...
...resign. He has been under intense criticism for months, the pressure mounting with each new bombing elsewhere in the country. There have been at least 10 major blasts over the past 18 months, the most recent one in Assam. Two Maharashtra state officials fell next: Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took his actor son Ritiesh and the Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma on a tour of the gutted Taj, and Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil, who resigned after he was quoted saying, "Small things do happen in big cities. They wanted to kill 5,000 people; we have minimized...
...followed by that of R.R. Patil, Home Minister of Maharasthra, the state of which Mumbai is the capital. R.R. Patil had been widely denounced for telling reporters on Saturday that the attacks were a "small incident that could happen in big cities." The state's Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, was next in the firing line, lambasted on television and even by fellow politicians for insensitivity after he was seen blithely touring the burned Taj Mahal hotel with a movie director. Deshmukh tendered his resignation to the ruling Congress Party, with which he is affiliated, and will likely be replaced this...
...commander for today's military operations, hinted that their accents might have been Pakistani.) So far, there have been little more than hints and platitudes from the steady stream of high-profile visitors to south Mumbai: the local strongman Raj Thackeray, Maharashtra state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Member of Parliament Milind Deora. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are said to be on their way to the city, as is opposition BJP leader L.K. Advani. The question is, Will they do anything to better prepare this city, and the rest of India, for the next time...