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...housewives marched through New Delhi, while in Mumbai protestors rode bullock carts to show that cars are now out of reach of the common man (never mind that less than 10% of the adult population owns a car). Says Rajiv Pratap Rudy, a spokesman for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party: "This is an economic terror unleashed on the people of this country." Yet the government may be forced into further hikes should crude prices remain high. "There is still a large uncovered gap and the recent price rises announced will not cover that," says Rajiv Kumar, director and chief...
...seats in the 552-member lower house - a real possibility given that Uttar Pradesh's 110 million voters elect 80 of those members - she would be well placed to decide which of India's two big parties, the Indian National Congress and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, should lead a new government, or perhaps even wangle the premiership for herself...
...figure at the center of the election, and perhaps the most controversial politician in India, is Narendra Modi, Gujarat's chief minister. Modi, a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is hailed by his supporters as a modernizer who has built new roads, brought electricity and streetlights to villages and attracted new business to Gujarat. To his detractors, Modi will always be the man who stoked the sectarian tensions that made the 2002 riots possible. The riots followed a train car fire that killed dozens of Hindu pilgrims. Within hours of the blaze, later blamed...
...Meanwhile, India's actual opposition, led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, is positively gleeful over the government's failure: Last Tuesday, BJP chief L.K. Advani derided Singh as the "weakest Prime Minister India has ever had," mocking his "opportunistic alliance" with the Left Front. Of course, the BJP had also agitated vociferously against the deal, but many suspect that had the hawkish, U.S.-friendly BJP been in power, they would have more likely embraced the nuclear treaty...
...understand the latest barrage in the culture wars that have begun to rage in this traditionally conservative country, it helps to know that Vijayavargiya is a member of the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which makes a regular show of acting outraged over sex and perceived slights against the nation. It's also worth knowing that except for a few fellow politicians, no one else has so far complained about the vibrating ring, whose packaging promises "a 20-minute joyride through the realms of vibrating pleasure." Indeed, Hindustan Latex has sold about 130,000 of the $3 packs...