Word: gandhis
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...accept the LTTE leader. "It is very unlikely that any country will offer asylum to Prabhakaran, as he has an indictment and arrest warrant against him in India and Sri Lanka," Jayasekara says. The Indian government has accused Prabhakaran of ordering the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. "It is more likely that Prabhakaran will get his children out of Sri Lanka to provide inspirational support in the future. The entire family of [Prabhakaran's wife] Madhivadini is in Denmark, and the children will have strong contact with them...
...first, his party had been confounded by the controversy. And there was some talk of fielding Maneka Gandhi as a candidate in her son's place during the elections. But the party finally decided to stand by the young man after India's Election Commission said in a 10-page report that Varun should be dropped as a candidate because of his "highly derogatory" remarks. The BJP shot back that the EC had no right to make that determination. The party may also have realized that they suddenly had a catalyst to bring supporters out to the election. At first...
Many Indians are appalled not only that a descendant of Nehru is espousing such a political perspective but that his name and actions besmirch that of the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was assassinated by a Hindu extremist in 1948. While the Mahatma was not a blood relation of the Nehrus, a popular story has the philosopher of political non-violence, who was Indira's godfather, allowing her fiance, a young Zoroastrian lawyer originally called Feroze Shah Ghandy, to restyle his surname as Gandhi, thus attaching prestige to a mixed marriage many Hindus would not have approved of. Priyanka Gandhi...
...remains to be seen how the case of Varun Gandhi will affect the BJP's chances. In any case, his supporters have not been quiet. On Saturday, after he turned himself in, they fought a pitched battle with the police and laid siege to the jail. Police responded by firing tear gas shells and charging the demonstrators with canes, injuring 25 people. His mother Maneka further stoked the anger when she claimed a Muslim officer had led the charge. In India's often overheated politics, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty knows about playing with fire...
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