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...DELHI: With national elections once again failing to produce a clear majority, India looks set for another season of political instability. TIME correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly reports that the Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to take 249 seats, while Congress should take 167 and the incumbent United Front 98. Congress and the BJP are furiously courting tiny regional parties in search of a 273-vote majority, with a Congress-United Front coalition looking the more likely winner. That, says Ganguly, would mean further uncertainty: ?The United Front would have the power to bring down a Congress government...
...widely predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the "Enlightened Hindu Nationalist" party, will gain the most seats of any single party, but not enough to form its own government. The conglomerate of left-leaning parties called the United Front--which headed the latest government under the ambivalent auspices of the India National Congress Party, the party that has ruled the government for all but five of the past 50 years--is expected to get about half the number of seats as the BJP, or about 20 percent. Congress will garner enough seats to control an unstable, anti-BJP coalition...
Almost every other party in the country is lining up to defeat Vajpayee in the confidence vote and topple his government. The phalanx of opposition arises because Vajpayee, though a moderate, heads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which pursues such hard-line policies as abolishing special constitutional provisions for Muslims and other minorities, making India a declared nuclear-weapons state and taking a tougher line against separatists in Kashmir. Most Indians remember that it was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades...
...support to a loose coalition of communist, leftist and lower-caste parties called the National Front-Left Front. Leaders of that group claim that it already has the backing of more than 300 members of parliament, enough to win a confidence vote. Says S. Jaipal Reddy, spokesman for the Janata Dal party: "The fall of the B.J.P. government is as certain as death...
...DELHI: The national election in India is almost over, but the politicking has only just started. Despite winning the majority of seats in parliament, control of the government is not assured for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Monday a leftist coalition called the National Front moved to keep the BJP from power, and gained an endorsement from the Congress Party. The soundly defeated Congress Party offered support to the Front, a loose coalition of socialist, communist and low-caste parties, but has yet to actually join up. With 530 of the 537 parliamentary seats accounted...