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...blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls Pakistani secret-service "modules." And he denies any personal responsibility for sparking an anti-Hindu backlash. "There is a fashion to blame everything on Gujarat," he tells TIME...
...lines. For Vajpayee, it enables a regal rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December with the re-election of the ultra-hard-line Narendra Modi as Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely had to threaten...
...truth, it is generally agreed, is that she is actually targeting alleged gang bosses, many of whom used to work for political leaders as handy election-time muscle but now have outgrown their modest origins to become centers of power in their own right. One assembly member, Sushil Kumar Modi, 48, figures about 40 of his colleagues run kidnap syndicates, an estimate shared by the police. "Lawlessness is out of control," he mourns. "It's controlled by powerful politicians...
...university, Modi quickly joined the RSS's student wing. At the time, the RSS and its fledgling political wing the BJP were on the fringe of India's political scene. By 1984, the BJP had only two seats in Parliament. All that changed in the late 1980s with the advent of Indian TV's first big hit show, Ramayana. The serialization of the legend of the god-king Rama set new lows for wooden acting and dismal special effects?and surprised everyone when it became a smash. Modi, by then a BJP press officer, wasn't the only...
...event the BJP loses in Gujarat, many observers reckon that the national government will suffer a heavy and perhaps fatal blow. ("I give them only three months," says a prominent Gujarati industrialist.) Advani in particular, as Modi's champion, is expected to stand or fall with his protEgE. And for Vajpayee, a loss, for which he would be blamed by hard-liners irked by his moderating restraints, would be as bad as a win, for which these same hard-liners would take the credit. But for the country, the consequences of an upset could be little short of disastrous. With...