Word: janata
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...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...
...enjoy the confidence of the house?" Last Wednesday, the question was put to a vote in the lower house of parliament, and Singh lost. Two days later, with the backing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, his job was taken over by Chandrashekhar, who broke away from Singh's Janata Dal party on Monday...
Singh's government fell after only 11 months when issues of caste and religion erupted into violence over rival Hindu-Muslim claims to the site of a mosque at Ayodhya. Winning the support of less than half of the 140 Janata Dal members, Chandrashekhar will be dependent upon the opposition Congress (I) Party and its allies...
...weeks ago, the Prime Minister's ruling coalition lost its majority in the parliament after Singh ordered the arrest of L.K. Advani, a Hindu nationalist who had refused to halt a five-week religious march to Ayodhya to support the construction of the Rama temple. Advani's Bharatiya Janata Party responded by withdrawing its backing from the government, a move intended to provoke Singh's downfall in a vote of confidence scheduled for this week...