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...Already a member of India's upper house of Parliament, he's also a new and improbable leader of the Janata Party, a socialist outfit famous for its commitment to farmers and the downtrodden. Mallya is campaigning hard to establish himself as a political force in his home state of Karnataka. He's already spent time and money stumping for candidates from an affiliated party in a recent election for the state assembly, and he says he plans to field candidates of his own in future elections. Emulating his heroes-American tycoon-turned-politician Ross Perot and Italian media magnate...
...certainly does not shy from spending his business wealth on his political pursuits. He says he's contributed $220,000 so far to the Janata Party, although many Indian political experts suspect the actual figure is much higher. Mallya's critics, in fact, complain that he has come this far solely because of his fortune. His 2002 election to Parliament was dogged by rumors that he bribed members of a prominent political party-rumors that he denies. Nor was that his first brush with accusations of financial impropriety. In 1999 Indian officials charged that he had violated the country...
...Indians would agree. Usually, it's the Muslims who feel like victims. The presence of a coalition government in New Delhi led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which draws support from the VHP, has prompted many Muslims to cry foul. They claim the BJP is anti-Islam, discriminates against Muslims in the civil service, and ignored last year's rampage in Gujarat state, when Hindu mobs killed 2,000 Muslims and injured and raped thousands more...
...intelligence officers suspect that last week's blasts were the work of militant Indian Muslims angered by the government's strident Hindu nationalism?particularly by the 2002 pogrom in the western state of Gujarat in which Hindus killed 2,000 Muslims while local and national leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looked on. The bombers "were our boys," asserts a senior officer with India's intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He characterizes them as a "little caucus, scarred by Gujarat." An American source agrees that this is a domestic matter, not part of the broader...
...time in his six-year term, he's expending political capital to try to make peace with neighboring Pakistan. At home, Vajpayee's star has never been higher. The opposition Congress Party is asleep on its benches. Last month Vajpayee quashed a leadership challenge from within his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by supporters of hard-line Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even more bold, Vajpayee has drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should...