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...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...
...didn't work. In today's India, Hindu nationalism is rampant in the form of Bharatiya Janata Party. During the recent elections, Gandhi and his ideas have scarcely been mentioned...
...coalition of disparate political parties led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) laid out an agenda that departs dramatically from the policies of previous government and is unlikely to sit well with the United States...
...difficulty governing France, as legend has it, derives from its more than 400 types of cheese, pity the Indian politician who has to rule a nation with easily as many deities. That politician, for now, is Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who will be at the mercy of the fractious and often self-serving regional parties whose votes guarantee his majority. Vajpayee was prime minister for 13 days in 1996, and this time the pundits don?t give him more than a year. Just enough time for Sonia Gandhi to build...