Word: janata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jaipal Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front...
With Hindus accounting for 83% of India's 833 million people, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi permitted the militants to lay the foundation stone for the new temple last week. The Hindu extremists are the vanguard of a growing movement led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its aim: to establish a Hindu Rashtra -- Hindu Nation...
...massacres touched off a spate of Hindu violence that left at least ten people dead and many others injured. A general strike organized by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and other opposition parties effectively shut down New Delhi and about 25 other cities. In a written statement, the - B.J.P. denounced Gandhi's government for what it described as a hollow promise to control terrorism...
...condemnations. In other nations, government statements were soft, but public opinion was not. The Indian government confined itself to a mumbled "sorry for the loss of lives" by a foreign ministry spokesman. But editorials in several newspapers assailed the Soviets, and Subramaniam Swamy, deputy parliamentary leader of the opposition Janata party, vainly called on the government to "clearly and categorically denounce the act of barbarism...
...Antulay's action. At one point, all of the members of the opposition parties angrily walked out in a rare show of unity. Last week a Bombay court held a hearing on a criminal complaint filed against Antulay by Ramdas Nayak, general secretary of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Nayak is charging that Antulay is guilty of "cheating, bribery and extortion," and should be put on trial. Meanwhile, Antulay has sent Gandhi his resignation. She is expected to make a decision on it when a suitable - and more circumspect - successor can be found...