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...DIED. PAMULAVARTI VENKAT NARASIMHA RAO, 83, former Prime Minister of India whose bold reforms in the 1990s helped jump-start the country's economy; in New Delhi. Following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Rao abandoned a planned retirement to lead the government, and over the next five years guided the nation through a grave economic crisis and a bitter battle between Hindus and Muslims over a mosque in central India. Rao ultimately fell victim to political infighting and accusations of corruption by members of the opposition, for which he was recently acquitted. After the Congress Party lost...
...Congress government in New Delhi and the main opposition party of the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was in the forefront of the movement to destroy the mosque built, it said, where the revered Hindu god Rama was born. The Congress Prime Minister at the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in a modern variation of the Nero legend, slept while the mosque was being destroyed. Even his Cabinet colleagues were not allowed to disturb his sleep, according to numerous statements made by them (after he lost power). Rao rationalized his abdication of responsibility with Machiavellian rationale...
...story of how India revived the nuclear nightmare begins in December 1995. The government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao is secretly readying an underground nuclear test when U.S. spy satellites orbiting over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...virtually all their votes have been counted, it is clear enough what most Indians were against: the Congress Party, the political juggernaut of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that has ruled India for all but four years since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is out, and the party, burdened with an image of corruption and lassitude, lost almost half its seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. Less clear is what Indians voted for. It is possible, in fact, that they have produced a government that will last...
...party has a majority in the lower house, and a coalition government must form. The President, Shankar Dayal Sharma is planning to wait a week to ask a party to form a government but his choice is by no means clear. Congress, led by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, and the National Front are united for now by their desire to keep the BJP from power, claiming that the BJP's pro-Hindu message will alienate the country's Muslims, who make up 12 percent of the nation. Front leaders are hedging, unwilling to depend on Congress to keep their...