Word: janata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parliament met but could conduct no business; legislators only banged their desks and screamed insults at one another. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao came under heavy fire for indecisiveness and overly conciliatory gestures toward extremists. In response, he ordered the arrest of two senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist group that has become the second largest political organization in India, on charges of inciting violence. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for 11 years. Rao also banned three Hindu organizations and two fundamentalist Muslim ones and at the same time promised Muslims that his government would...
Hindu nationalists have been fighting over the 16th century mosque since 1855. In recent years, the cause was taken up by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has used anti-Muslim feelings to advance its political fortunes. By attacking the supposed privileges of the Muslim community and taking up the struggle over the mosque, the party won 88 seats in the lower house of Parliament...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...
...Nehru, and to some extent Gandhi, represented. It rejects the "foreign" influences of Islam, Christianity, capitalism and socialism, and aspires to restore Rama Rajya, a mythical golden age of Hindu civilization when the Hindu god Rama ruled. In less than two years, the movement's political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by L.K. Advani, 63, has moved from the margins to the center of Indian politics...
...Sikhs around the capital. Their mood worsened as the night wore on, and they beat up several cameramen for no apparent reason. Some chanted slogans blaming the CIA and called for an attack on the U.S. embassy. Others randomly pointed to V.P. Singh one minute, the ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) the next...