Word: samajwadi
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...deal with the United States. The two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government in protest against the deal, which they said would make India beholden to the strategic interests of the U.S. Singh kept his majority by forging a series of alliances, first with the Samajwadi Party, a powerful player in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and then with a series of smaller regional parties. "They ayes have it," said Somnath Chatterjee, the speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, as he announced the results at about...
...vote looming, it's unlikely Congress politicians will be drawing the public's attention to Singh's unpopular nuclear deal. The vote is expected to be close. Singh plugged the hole in his coalition created by the withdrawal of the leftist parties by teaming up with the democratic socialist Samajwadi Party, whose 39 seats almost make up for votes lost to the left. (One Samajwadi Party leader, Amar Singh, is a pro-American industrialist who has a framed picture of the Brooklyn Bridge hanging in his office.) With about a dozen lawmakers undecided, the Prime Minister can probably swing enough...
...gave herself up in 1983, but was freed by the Supreme Court eleven years later. She joined the regional Samajwadi party, and with wide support from women and the poor, won a seat in Parliament five years...
...There was some suggestion that her assassination may have been rooted in political intrigue, with Devi set to play a key role in the lower-caste Samajwadi Party's bid to win control of Uttar Pradesh in state elections later this year. But many Indian commentators suspected her death may have been an act of vengeance by the families of some of her own victims...
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