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...facing its own branding challenge in selling young voters on an 81-year-old party leader, L.K. Advani, as its prime-ministerial candidate. In one now infamous image, Advani was photographed lifting dumbbells at a gym in Gandhinagar, his home constituency, as if to demonstrate his vigor. The party has set up a website and blog for Advani and is relying heavily on Internet and text-message advertising. "My young colleagues who have created this website told me that a political portal without a blog is like a letter without a signature," Advani wrote in his first post, noting that...
...original version of this article incorrectly referred to Ahmedabad as the capital of the Indian state of Gujarat. While Ahmedabad is the commercial and cultural center of the state, Gandhinagar is the actual capital...
...Gujarat has swayed on the edge of horror for months?from Godhra, early this year, where Hindu pilgrims were torched in a train by Muslims, to the gruesome aftermath in which innocent Muslims were butchered with what many saw as the government's tacit encouragement, to the temple in Gandhinagar where last week two terrorists massacred Hindu devotees, including women and children...
...That didn't stop hard-liners from howling for swift justice or Muslim families in Gandhinagar fleeing their homes, anticipating the worst as conservative Hindu leaders called for a mass strike. Vajpayee, however, has been ruing the events of the spring in speeches around the world. Statements from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders blamed Pakistan?not Muslims?to dilute religious overtones. To ensure the peace, this time the state deployed 3,000 soldiers to the area. The measured tones frustrated some coalition members?"Our Prime Minister only cares about international opinion," griped Kamleshji Maharaj of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad...
Last week in the town of Gandhinagar some thought that Nehru had won a great victory. Others, who knew the depth and strength of the extremist movement behind Tandon, felt that the issue had been postponed rather than settled...