Word: janata
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...more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite trouncing its opposition at the polls, India's sixth government in three years looks set to be every bit as fragile as the fifth. Although Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata party-led alliance had won 284 of the 543 parliamentary seats according to projections released Thursday, his 24-party coalition may be bedeviled by the same fractiousness that brought down his last government in May. If anything, the results confirmed the trend away from the two dominant parties in the world's largest democracy. "Some observers...
...game of one-on-one, and Sonia Gandhi never saw the ball. India's month-long election ended Sunday with the ruling Hindu nationalist Baharatiya Janata party set to strengthen its majority. In what looks like a crushing blow to the vaunted Gandhi political dynasty, exit polls pointed to the BJP block collecting around 300 parliamentary seats compared with a little over 150 for Mrs. Gandhi's Congress party and its allies. In an election where no significant policy issues were at stake, Congress had hoped the allure of the Gandhi name would restore its fortunes. Although the BJP mercilessly...
...elaborate form of political inoculation. Mrs. Gandhi resigned as party leader Monday, after three senior leaders wrote a letter insisting that no foreign-born person should be allowed to be in charge of India. The action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues. Congress had focused much of its campaigning around Gandhi, using the almost mythical allure of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty (she's the widow of assassinated prime minister...
...Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, and the first thing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee plans to do is carry out that canceled nuclear test. The B.J.P. has made nuclear assertion a cardinal plank of its India-first platform, and Vajpayee gives the go-ahead, but scientists tell him it will take a month. Before they can carry through, his government falls, after just 13 days in office...
...mortar with their bare hands. Subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting across the country left more than 1,000 dead. When the mosque was destroyed--according to legend, it had been built on the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram--many feared that if the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party who egged on the fanatics ever came to power, it would mean civil...